Abigail Adams to John Adams

You are going to read three documents this week. Read the letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams dated March 31-April 5, 1776. This is a famous letter written from Abigail Adams to her husband, who was at the Continental Convention. For more information about the letter, you can read this brief overview.. Also read the excerpt from Common Sense by Thomas Paine and the African-American Anti-Slavery Petition to Massachusetts Legislature.
https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760331aa
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abigail-adams-asks-her-husband-to-remember-the-ladies
https://bcc-cuny.digication.com/ushistoryreader/African_American_Anti-Slavery_Petition_to_Massachu

Question

Answer the following questions, along with making other comments you feel are relevant to the discussion of the documents:

1- What arguments does Thomas Paine make to convince people living in the Colonies to want to break with Britain?

2- What argument Abigail Adams is making about women and rights?

3- How is she using the language and values the men are using to argue there should be a revolution to argue for her own rights?

4- What argument do the enslaved people in the petition make about why they should be free?

5- How do they use the language and values of the Revolution to make a case for their freedom?

6-What do the documents tell you about life in the colonies in the months before the colonies issued the Declaration of Independence.