click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. On September 22, 1774, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John of "a conspiracy of the negroes," referring to the June ...

She was tough. She was absolutely tough." The voluminous correspondence of 1,100 letters between Abigail and John Adams provide perhaps the most important primary source of study of the American ...

On October 25, 1764, Abigail wed John Adams, commencing a partnership characterized ... husband's sojourn to Europe her "widowhood." When his letters dwindled, Abigail struck up a correspondence ...