The First Ladies in Female Spheres Massachusetts-born Abigail Smith inherited New England's potent traditions and continued to personify republican values until her death in 1818. She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and ... female schooling. (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. She formed her own taste and intellectual insight. Influenced by Joseph Adison's Spectator and its promotion of "moral decency and rational religion" she tended to prefer reason and judgment ov...

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... sign... I should arise and prepare myself and slay my enemies with their own weapons (Higginson 283). At the beginning of the year 1830, Turner was moved to the home of Joseph Travis, the new husband of Thomas Moore's widow. His official owner was Putnum Moore, still a young child. Turner described Travis as a kind master, against whom he had no complaints. Then ... had selected Harper's Ferry, Virginia, as one of the sites for the new national armories. John Brown moved to a farm near Harper's Ferry and took up the alias of Isaac Smith. There he began training a group of 22 men includi...

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... country expanded territorially. Part of the reason for Americans spreading was to flee persecution as well as for monetary desire or will to find land. Having had their former leader Joseph Smith killed by an angry mob in Carthage, Illinois, Mormons were encouraged to move west by their new leader Brigham Young. When the Mormons settled near The Great Salt Lake in ... ...

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