... of every female and "patient submission" in all duties was the expected norm and virtue. (Akers 5) This was a norm in both women's eras. In Abigail Adams" case, the years of French-Indian War and the crisis that followed were the beginning of installation of ideas and conduct within "Christian patriotism" that Abigail Adams closely understood and embodied. Her father preached a more ... passive acceptance of fate and she instead battled destiny. Her position was considered "distinctly unfeminine, unchristian."(Baker 128) Akers" paraphrase that "only in the mind of God did the discordant...

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