Sarah Taylor's Case Study

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During the case of Sarah Taylor, I believe that she was treated more as an object rather than a person. This was because she was treated as property. There were several evidences that I gathered from the text to support this notion. The first evidence is from the statement of John Smith when he was accused by Captain Thomas Bradnoxx of privately detaining Sarah Taylor. Smith confessed that Taylor was in his house. According to him, “he found her in the woods & brought her home to his owne house, but beinge weary that Eveninge he could not transport her that night, but did intend next morning to convey her to her Mr or Conestable or Else to some Majestrate.” From Smith’s explanation, it seemed that Taylor was just an item, without

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