The distinguishing factor between Philis Wheatley's and Abigail Adam's letters from the rhetoric of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine is the humility in their tone.
They were praying, begging, and imploring men to match their words with their actions. They urged freedom fighters to remember those who suffered neglect in the fight for freedom. For example, Wheatley used an occasion of her personal letter to Rev. Occum to point out "the contradiction between the colonists' demands for freedom from Britain and the colonists' determination to uphold black slavery" in their backyards.
Abigail Adams also urged her husband, John Adams, that the American male politicians then clamoring for freedom should not forget the freedom deserved by women. In her reasoning, America cannot claim victory over British oppression when the men were not ready to extend the same rights to their wives, mothers, and sisters, and by implication, the slaves.
The rhetoric of Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson showed that they were only interested in gaining freedom for the white men. They also showed that women had low regard. Women during those years were homemakers with only bedroom voices.
Thus, the personal letters of Philis Wheatley and Abigail Adams show the low place accorded women by American Founding Fathers. There was no single Founding Mother among the crowd!
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