Gender's Role In The Salem Witchcraft Trial

Gender played a very significant role in the witchcraft craze that took place from 1645 until 1677 and the Salem witchcraft trial that also took place from 1692 until 1693. Majority of the accused were women because they were regarded as vulnerable, delicate and defenseless and so needed special care and protection from evil. Between 1645-63 thirteen women and two men were executed in a witch hunt throughout England. It was followed by the Salem witch trial was primary carried out by the puritans when people think of the puritans, they think of the Salem witch trials and so it is believed that where there are many women there are many witches. Young Girls were the primary accusers of their fellow women, pointing fingers at old single women as witches an example was Susana Martins. Theses younger ladies would testify that these women were coming into their rooms at night making incantations. The puritans viewed and treated women as subordinate to men and so were not allowed to preach in churches because they were more likely to be

The great awakening movement changed the way religion was seen and till date it still plays an important role in church and the followers of God. The great awakening was a religious revival kind of experience where itinerant preachers, traveled around from colony to colony urging the citizens to return to their Faith in God which took place across the American colonies which influenced political thoughts, academic findings, church doctrines and more. Before the first great awakening, women had no right in the society, they had little or no education and were primarily home makers, they could not participate in public affairs and they had no educational exposure to challenge their male folks. women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of the most sacred