'Remember the Ladies': Emancipation Efforts of American Women from Independence to Seneca Falls

Abigail Adams's contentions for the rights of women were not taken up by her husband and his colleagues in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution; but she remained a feminist force in early America. Her interest in the work of Catherine Macaulay (who in turn influenced Mary Wollstonecraft) helped lay the foundations that led to the 1848 Seneca Falls conference, regarded as a watershed in the female suffrage and women's rights movements. [D. I. Petts]