History

Abigail Adams was one of only two women to have been both wife and mother to two U.S. presidents (the other being Barbara Bush). Often separated from her husband due to his political work, the self-educated Abigail oversaw the family’s household and largely raised their four children on her own, all the while maintaining a lively lifelong correspondence with her husband on the political issues of the day. She was also famous for her early advocacy of several divisive causes, including women’s rights, female education and the abolition of slavery. On Slavery "I wish most sincerely there was not a Slave in the province. It allways appeard a most iniquitious Scheme to me-fight ourselfs for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have. You know my mind upon this Subject." "I have been much diverted with a little occurence which took place a few days since and which serve to shew how little founded in nature

ROAD TRIP Ocala – Fort King Bushnell – Dade City Battlefield   Osceola The Indian Removal Act had given the Seminoles three years to move west of the Mississippi. A new Indian Removal agent named Wiley Thompson, had been appointed in  1834 , and the task of persuading the Seminoles to move fell to him. He called the chiefs together at Fort King in October  1834  to talk to them about the removal to the west. The Seminoles informed Thompson that they had no intention of moving and that they did not feel bound by Removal Act. One of the Chiefs, Osceola was furious and when presented with a copy of the Act it’s reported that he stabbed it with a knife.  Thompson then requested reinforcements for Fort King and Fort Brooke, reporting that, "the Indians after they had received the Annuity, purchased an unusually large quantity of Powder & Lead." Another General also warned Washington that the Seminoles did not intend to move and that more troops would be