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Article: A long and winding road.(history of women's suffrage)
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- Cobblestone
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- March 1, 2009
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Imagine this scene: Abigail Adams time-travels from 1776 to 2008 and is in the audience at one of the Democratic presidential debates as Hillary Rodham Clinton joins several men on stage. Then Adams attends the Republican National Convention and sees Sarah Palin nominated as that party's candidate for vice president. What do you think she would say?
First, you would have to know who Adams was. As the intellectual wife of the second U.S. president, John Adams, Abigail had some very strong opinions about both politics and women. In 1776, in correspondence with her husband, who was in Philadelphia ...