Since in their respective times, gathering evidence was hard, so much of the proof came from the words of others, and that evidence could have been easily manipulated.This correlates with the Crucible because Rebecca Nurse was being accused for the most unnatural of reasons from Mrs. Putnam. For example, in Act 2, Francis tells Proctor that “For murder, she’s charged! . For the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam’s babies” (Miller 1175). This displays that accusations were being treated like hard evidence, and that no one considered the “proof” was lies that they were telling for their own benefit. This reasoning is akin to that of African Americans since they were being arrested based on prejudice compared to actual evidence.