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Dry stuff, you might say, and hardly something that would lend itself to a musical. But not only do the writers find some truly stirring romance (John and Abigail Adams, based on their historic love letters — not to mention the poignant, if ultimately doomed, romance between Jefferson and his wife), but there’s time for some mordant political comedy and some gut-wrenching debate over both independence and the question of slavery, which dispute nearly doomed the Congress and, in its resolution, paved the way for civil war a century later.<\/p>\n