Jheaya Conwell The History of the Colony of Province of Massachusetts Bay: Volume II was created by a male author named Thomas Hutchinson. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson (1637) was edited by Lawrence Shaw Mayo who attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The selection was reprinted by the permission of Thomas Hutchinson, but in the Table of Contents it says that John Winthrop was the author of the selection. Even though he was the governor of the year 1637, and was also included in the trial case. Maybe he could have tweaked some of the things he said to Anne Hutchinson so that he did not come off as rude. Also, since Thomas and Anne Hutchinson have the same last name they could have been related, …show more content…
but Thomas would have to be a passed down relative. I feel like Thomas kept the record of the trial because he was related to Anne and that’s why he was asked permission to publish this trial. Not knowing how long Thomas Hutchinson had those papers, he could have changed the words and possibly made his “relative” look innocent. In addition Lawrence Shaw Mayo edited the excerpt from old english to new and he could have messed around with the words from the trial case too. Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1693) was written by a male author named Cotton Mather. He was a minister in Boston and he lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Which was from 1639 to 1728 and died at the age of eighty-nine years old. Cotton Mather observed the community and has evidence of satan's work, and/or activities, and feared it as well. This excerpt was intended for public use to talk about witchcraft experiences, and the intended audience was for people who wanted to know about witchcraft and/or agreed or disagreed. This excerpt is about particular people and there are people that talk about their encounters with those people. The people from the Massachusetts Bay Colony feared witches, and did not really listen to the people who did not follow the church policies. In that time period if your beliefs were different from the church’s beliefs then you were considered a witch. Since the beliefs that Anne Hutchinson had were against the magistrates she was exiled. Though the reason she stopped believing the church’s beliefs, stopped using their practices, learned, and taught her own beliefs and practices were because the puritans barely did either. So why should she have to practice something that the purest christians do not even practice. She also was not aloud to have her own beliefs because she was a woman and during this time men were very sexist and thought they were the superior gender. The men even tried to understand her beliefs, but because she was a woman they were a little more stubborn. The governor John Winthrop even tried to mix Anne’s words around and make her stumble with her words while answering his question but it never worked. He tried to make it seem like people either preached a covenant of works or grace so that Anne could get mixed up and agree and she didn’t. Which is shown in the book For The Record page 28. I feel like she was bribed to agree with them but did not take the prize or money that was offered to stop her practices. I do not really know into depths about this case/trial except for what i’ve read. In Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1693) the people of that time were very religious and looked down upon people of witchcraft and feared them. They feared them because they did not want to have encounters with those people and turn “evil” or into witches. People against witchcraft knew that witchcraft was against the church beliefs and practices and they could have felt like they would go to hell if they practiced or believed any of their beliefs. If you were even around these two girls called the Visionary Girls and if they said something would happen it would happen. Also, it talks about people who feared a woman named Susanna Martin because of the stuff she would tell the people she talked to or interacted with. This excerpt is very biased though. It only talks about the negative encounters from the three women. There are no positive comments about witchcraft in this excerpt which means the author was very biased and against witchcraft and he only had people in this excerpt that were against witchcraft and feared it. It even says in the description about him that he feared witchcraft. Both the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case and Salem Witchcraft Trials talked about practices and beliefs that were against the church’s beliefs and unacceptable behavior to the people.
The excerpts are very sexist about woman and think that woman should not go on their own and believe their own beliefs. All four women within both excerpts were accused of witchcraft and charges were brought unto them. Anne Hutchinson and Susanna Martin did not clearly answer any questions they were asked and they both have some of their trial case published in the book, but they did defend themselves till the end when the people who they were talking to them tried to mix up their words. Though charges were brought to all four women, Anne Hutchinson was the only one who was executed along with some of her children. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case was before the Salem Witchcraft Trials and maybe the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case’s punishments were harder than the Salem Witchcraft Trials excerpt. Since the Salem Witchcraft Trials was in the year of 1693. Which is Fifty-six years after the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case. Also, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case excerpt only focused on one person which was Anne Hutchinson while Salem’s excerpt included three women. In the Salem excerpt it only had a little part of Susanna Martin’s trial case and the rest was biased information. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case was all a trial case. Furthermore with the Salem Witchcraft Trials when the people spoke about their encounters with Susanna Martin, a lot of numbers were skipped. The numbers ranged from 1-12 and within those numbers only numbers two, four, six, seven, and twelve were in the excerpt. Following those five numbers were the people who talked about their encounter with Susanna Martin and none of them were a positive encounter. I believe the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case way more over the Salem Witchcraft Trials, because the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case was more believable just because
of the fact that the whole excerpt was a trial case. In the Massachusetts Bay Colony Case is goes back and forth between Anne Hutchinson and John Winthrop. Even though no one knows if the trial is specifically word for word it is not like the Salem Witchcraft Trials where there is just a little piece of the trial and the rest of the excerpt is biased encounters. When the Salem Witchcraft Trials talks about Cotton Mather is says how he even feared witchcraft. So why support and excerpt knowing that it was going to be overly biased. The Massachusetts Bay Colony just provides a lot more valid information to me than the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Even though the people of the Salem Witchcraft Trials could have really been telling the truth, it just made it harder to believe. On top of the author being biased. Even is Cotton Mather was to put a little bit more of the trial and/or add in some positive things then it would have more potential of being believable. Shi, David E., and Holly A. Mayer. For the Record. a Documentary History of America. 6th ed. Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Print.
The problem with this is the fact that he only used one case. The case he uses shows how it was not the same as Salem but does not give the reader the idea that this was the norm. Salem is the most well known witch hunt and trial in American History, and most Americans know about it. But, for the ones who are not aware or educated on the event, Godbeer’s purpose of writing the book would be hard for the reader to understand. This is a downfall in this writing. If he would have included other sources and other accounts of witch trials in New England, his argument that Salem was not the norm would be more effective. The book does a good job of explaining how the trial was handled in Stamford and how the judges and townspeople took into consideration the evidence, although not all townspeople did this. Some were very quick to judge and wanted the accused put to death. Godbeer’s thesis would be much stronger if he would have included the other accounts around New
Missionary- A person who teaches their religion to other people who believe in something else
Being such a narrative, when I was reading about the details of Kate’s attacks I was actually scared. It gave a sense of spookiness to the book that I hoped for. I remember visiting the city of Salem, and the same chills I had walking through the town was relived while reading the book. However one difference about this book compared to the historical teachings of Salem was that in Kate’s trail it was less of a he said she said event and more on the cold hard facts. In GodBeer testimony, he examines much of what Jonathan Selleck notes on how to determine a witch is guilty because he knew how serious of an offense it truly was. I sometimes found myself wondering if this was a fictional story because of how elaborate it was or however, when he used experts from documents such as the petition for Elizabeth Clawson. The last two chapters is much about the trial process than I expected, which helped me to understand this book as a narrative with much historical
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The Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by people of English descent, but by 1700, they had become two distinctly different societies. They had evolved so differently, mainly because of the way that the settlers followed their religion, their way of conducting politics and demographics in the colonies. Even though the settlers came from the same homeland: England, each group had its own reasons for coming to the New World and different ideas planned for the colonies.
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft is a concise, 231 page informational text by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Published in 1974, it explores the economic and social conditions present in the Salem village during the 1600s that led to the hysteria surrounding witchcraft. Multiple graphs and illustrations are present, as well as an average sized font, an abundance of footnotes typically on the left page, and a prominent voice from the authors. The book was written to serve as a more comprehensive informational piece on the Salem witch trials due to the authors finding other pieces written about the same topic to be inaccurate. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum wanted to create something that utilized
The Crusades of the middle ages introduced much innovative and formerly unheard of merchandise into Western Europe; however the scarcity of these luxury goods instilled Europeans with drive to find easier access to the Far East. Although desired "Northwest Passage" never was found, joint-stock companies, like the Virginia Company of London, settled colonies in the New World for untapped resources such as silver and other tradable goods. Many more corporations followed suit, settling mainly in the Chesapeake Bay area, their small settlements eventually developing into the Chesapeake colonies. The Chesapeake colonies were focused primarily on profitable enterprises. At the same time, the New England colonies were being settled with a whole different set of initiatives, principally religious freedoms and family. Governing bodies were established, with their success dependent on the quality of the settlers the colony attracted. The different motives for settlement affected the routine events in such a way that the New England and Chesapeake colonies differed very greatly from one another even though they were both mainly settled by the English.
The Salem witch trials are a huge part of America's history regardless of whether because of it being an embarrassment or triumph. After reading the novel "The Devil in Massachusetts" by Marion L. Starkey it is evident she is trying to display this in her version of the trials. While it is true to historical documentation Starkey's version seems to be an attempt at an `easy read' for those wishing to learn about a detailed listing of events. I enjoyed the attempt at which she took to make historical facts more appealing and interesting to those who may find it dry. While the objective is supposed to be a more interesting way for those to learn about history, her vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure can often at times be confusing and cause there to be a break in the flow of the sequence of events.
The Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts can be considered a horrendous period in American history, yet is also viewed as the turning point in what was considered acceptable in a contemporary society. In a documentation of a trial against a woman named Sarah Good, the reader is able to see the way in which such an accusation was treated and how society as a whole reacted to such a claim. Sarah Good fell victim to the witchcraft hysteria because she was different, and that fear of her divergence from the Puritan lifestyle led to her eventual demise.
In the 17th century, the British colonies still identified themselves as European, but as the colonies expanded and grew more populous, they developed differing geographic, social, and economic systems. This difference between New England, and Chesapeake, is caused by the motivations for settlement between the two regions. While the New England colonies were mainly settled for religious motivations, most notably by the Puritans, the Chesapeake colonies were settled for economic prosperity. Also, while the Chesapeake colonies were mainly settled by individual young men seeking a profit, the New England colonies were settled by families hoping to settle and expand.
Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 is about a witch trial that took place in Stamford, Connecticut in 1692; the same year as the Salem Witch Trials, which are considered to be quite a dark topic of early history in America. While obviously there were some similarities between the two cases, the way in which the trials were handled differ greatly. Godbeer takes us through a well written narrative of Kate Branch, a seventeen year old girl, who made claims and accusations of being bewitched. The majority of the book is about the trial itself, and how the trial was handled. Godbeer illustrates how this trial was very difficult and tricky. Convicting someone for something supernatural, like witchcraft, is definitely a
To begin, one of the causes of the Salem witch trial was the age, gender, and marital status. In Document B, twenty-four accusers were females. Twenty-three of the twenty-nine were under twenty years old, and twenty-eight of the thirty-four accusers were unmarried. 80% of females were 40 years old, and 75% of the females were either married or widowed. It’s interesting to mention that 23 of the accuser were females that were single, and 13 females that were at least between the ages of 16-20.
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During the 1700's, people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives, others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy, religion, and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New England area possessed a very happy and healthy life. This high way of living was due in part to better farming, a healthier environment, and a high rate of production because of more factories. The colonists of the Chesapeake Bay region, on the other hand, led harder lives compared to that of the colonists of New England. The Chesapeake Bay had an unhealthy environment, bad eating diets, and intolerable labor.
The term witchcraft is defines as the practice of magic intended to influence nature. It is believed that only people associated with the devil can perform such acts. The Salem Witch Trials was much more than just America’s history, it’s also part of the history of women. The story of witchcraft is first and foremost the story of women. Especially in its western life, Karlsen (1989) noted that “witchcraft challenges us with ideas about women, with fears about women, with the place of women in society and with women themselves”. Witchcraft also confronts us too with violence against women. Even through some men were executed as witches during the witch hunts, the numbers were far less then women. Witches were generally thought to be women and most of those who were accused and executed for being witches were women. Why were women there so many women accused of witchcraft compared to men? Were woman accused of witchcraft because men thought it was a way to control these women? It all happened in 1692, in an era where women were expected to behave a certain way, and women were punished if they threatened what was considered the right way of life. The emphasis of this paper is the explanation of Salem proceedings in view of the role and the position of women in Colonial America.