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- For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
- Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution.
- While topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men, Warren was an exception.
- Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.
- While politics remained the domain of men during the Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren challenged this assumption.
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- For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Abigail Adams, pictured in , and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
- Adams was wife to John Adams and mother to John Quincy Adams while Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist.
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- Another privileged member of the revolutionary generation, Mercy Otis Warren, also challenged gender-based assumptions and traditions during the revolutionary era.
- Warren, born in Massachusetts, published anti-British works actively opposing British reform measures before the outbreak of fighting in 1775.
- By publishing her work, Warren stepped out of the female sphere and into the otherwise male-dominated arena of public life.
- It is important to note that Adams, Murray, and Warren all came from privileged backgrounds.