click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document.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 ...

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 ...