Abigail Adams
1744 – 1818
American

Public figure. She took positions that would be described later as feminist, and left a rich literary record in her extensive letters.

Contemporaries
1801–1877Brigham Young
1732–1799George Washington
1811–1896Harriet Beecher Stowe
1818–1893Lucy Stone
1815–1902Elizabeth Stanton
1793–1880Lucretia Mott
1781–1849William Miller
1755–1835John Marshall
1736–1784Ann Lee
1807–1870Robert E. Lee
1805–1879Angelina Grimke
1792–1873Sarah Grimke
1805–1879William Garrison
1706–1790Benjamin Franklin
fl. c. 1703–c. 1758Jonathan Edwards
1817–1895Frederick Douglass
1800–1891George Bancroft
1771–1852Hosea Ballou