... that Abigail Adams closely understood and embodied. Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. Rational religion was her base for morality and ... struggled with passive acceptance of fate and she instead battled destiny. Her position was considered "distinctly unfeminine, unchristian."(Baker 128) Akers" paraphrase that "only i...

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