"Abigail Adams" quotes from her letter to her husband to "remember the ladies" as he and his colleagues draft the Declaration. "John Adams" and "Thomas Jefferson's" patronizing reaction to her words in this scene from a 2005 PBS production of "Jefferson and Adams" suggests that her quest for gender equality was to be a dream deferred.
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