![]() ![]() Writing to her husband, Abigail expressed anguish at nearby fighting: June 18, 1775, "Charlestown is laid in ashes. for years at a time? It's all there in her private letters, letters that were never meant for public eyes, letters that she repeatedly asked to be burned! What was it like to hear the cannon's roar from your window? to face pestilence? food shortages? rampant inflation? devalued coinage? to raise four children alone-and earn the money to keep your household afloat, while your husband was engaged in politics and diplomacy miles and oceans away. Her family correspondence, published along with a memoir by her grandson, Charles Francis Adams, brings that era into eloquent focus. Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures-John Adams. ![]()
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