Why Mary Surratt didn’t deserve the death sentence Mary Surratt wasn’t innocent but wrongly put to death. Evidence used against Mary surratt was sightings of confederates at her house,when it really wasn’t her fault. According to source two, her son john Jr.was a known confederate spy ,and similar characters frequented her boarding house. This piece of information taken from source shows that even if she weren’t involved with any conspiracy she would automatically have been linked to the confederates do to her sons and their connections. Mary Surratt’s boarding house was used as a refugee for blockade runners (source 2).
Mary Ann's trial lasted three days and afterward, she was found guilty and was executed in Durham Jail on March 24th, 1873 by William Calcraft (Wilson). Rumors had been flying all over the area of the infamous Mary Ann Cotton; people wanted to see how this case turned out. Therefore, about 50 people were present, half of them journalists, with 200 waiting outside of the prison ("The Story of Mary Ann Cotton: A Frail Dressmaker's Poisonous Past"). At 8am on March 24, 1873, Mary Ann Cotton, then 41, was taken from her cell and led across the yard at Durham prison to her hanging station, flanked by two female guards to whom she declared "Heaven is my home."
Mary Winston Jackson was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She became the first black engineer to work for NASA. For nearly two decades she enjoyed a productive engineering career, authoring, or co-authoring a dozen or so research reports, most focused on the behavior of the boundary layer of air around airplanes. She served as the chair of one of the center’s annual United Way campaigns, was a Girl Scout troop leader for more than three decades, and a member of the National Technical Association (the oldest African American technical organization in the United States).
The witch panic started in Salem, Massachusetts hanged 19 people and inspired a wide-swept fear of the Devil and witchcraft that lasted for over a year. Historians have discussed why this panic occurred for years, producing a slew of opinions on what caused one small community to erupt into such fear. Two such historians, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, attempted to understand the 1692 Salem witch trials by analyzing Salem Village’s social and economic tensions dividing the community in the book Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Yet the two historians ignore the largest group of participants in the witch trials: women. When looking at the documents recording the events of 1692, however, a historian cannot escape the importance of the young girls who were first afflicted and started the accusations.
Mary Rowlandson was a colonial American woman, she was the mother of three children and the wife of the minister Joseph Rowlandson. Mary Rowlandson was captured by Native Americans during King Phillip’s War. She was held ransom for eleven weeks. After she was released she wrote, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” This narrative is known for one of America’s first best sellers.
The book by Rosalyn Schanzers Witches! The absolutely true tale of disaster in salem gives information about the salem witch trials. The surroundings of the trials(such as weather)changed from winter all the way through spring 1692.They also were very paranoid of a lot of things. Such as witches and the devil. The main theories i will state are Reasons for the witch hunts.
Although losing her mom was a great tragedy it led her to where she is now and where she found the Boatwright family. Killing her mom was the only way she would have found the picture of the black Mary with Tiburon, S.C. on the back.
In the novel "Ghost Wall," written by Sarah Moss, the author explores the theme of how traditions and expectations can confine and restrict the characters, preventing them from personal growth and freedom. Moss adeptly portrays this notion through the experiences of Silvie, the protagonist, and her family during an immersive archaeological reenactment. Firstly, the weight of tradition imposes rigid roles and responsibilities on the characters. Silvie's father, Bill, is deeply entrenched in his belief of an idealized past, where ancient practices are revered.
Moreover, journal entries from the queen herself indicate that even she did not see herself as rising above her station. Mary writes that she is “so little fit” for government affairs, and that “I do not know when I ought to speak and when not” during her council sessions. Despite the extraordinary power that Mary had, and often times yielded, her writing suggests that she still conceived of herself within the confines of traditional feminine ideals, which included not having an appetite for government business and a mouth that knows when to be silent and when to be used. Despite her active role in ecclesiastical appointments and involvement in government while William was away in military campaigns, Mary II obediently retired from politics
First Generations: Women of Colonial America, written by Carol Berkin, is a novel that took ten years to make. Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has worked as a consultant on PBS and History Channel documentaries. Berkin has written several books on the topic of women in America. Some of her publications include: Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence (2004) and Civil War Wives: The Life and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant (2009).
“Now is the dreadful hour come, that I have often heard of (in time of war, as it was the case of others), but now mine eyes see it,” writes Mary Rowlandson in her true-to-life account of her captivity among the Native Americans, and the attack that changed her life (258). This attack, which was a part of a series of battles that occurred during King Phillip’s War against the colonists in 1675, resulted in the loss of Rowlandson’s family, friends, community, and home. In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, she chronicles this period of fearing for her life that lasted eleven weeks until she was granted the freedom to return to what remained of her previous existence, with only some sense of her former self
Nursing has been around since ancient times. People have needed the healing hands of nurses for thousands upon thousands of years. In Africa, the healing techniques of witch doctors and medicine men were taught to chosen children. The medicine men and witch doctors were like the nurses for the entire village. However, these more primitive techniques have evolved into much more evidence-based practices.
Her mother died shortly after her birth leaving her father to care for her and her half-sister, Fanny Imlay. The dynamic of her family soon changed when her father remarried. Mary was treated poorly by her new stepmother, and her quality of life was less than satisfactory. Her step-siblings were allowed to receive an education while Mary stayed at home. She found comfort in reading, and created stories in her father’s library.
The purpose of a ghost story is to leave the reader feeling frightened and unaware of what the truth of reality is. Nguyen's Black-Eyed Women flips all our perceptions of what a ghost is and why they visit the living. The ghost stories told in this story affect the narrator by forcing her to confront the discomfort of her reality. The narrator realizes she has been ignoring discomfort about her brother dying for her, and s the guilt and that she lived. She loses her identify, and sense of security, however her brother's ghost arrives to mend this disconnect.
In the book, The Witches: Salem 1692, the author Stacy Schiff attempts to condense a large volume of research into a cohesive narrative that tries to avoid to much speculation. There is some contention that the book does speculate into the motives of primary accusers that some reviewers have intimated are bordering on fiction. However, the author defends her arguments logically, and her inferences do seem to bridge the gaps effectively. One of the items that causes some confusion, to both the historically curious, and to the researcher is that the author has created a list of dramatis personae in which the historical figures are labeled as a cast of characters which might make the book seem fictional.
