How Did The Puritans Treat Women?

While slavery increased the chance of an Indian rebellion, the Puritans believed that slavery was an acceptable option. They believed this because slavery had its advantages, such as increasing profit that helped pay for the war. Also, the Puritans felt that slavery gave Indians a reason to be a friend rather than an enemy. Lastly, slavery was thought to be a better option for captives rather than execution. Additionally, although it could be debated by both parties their reasoning as to why they treated women this way, women were treated differently throughout the war by different groups of people. Examples of this include different societies having their own purposes for women. The English and Indians acted more civil towards women compared to the Irish. The Indians' main purpose for women was to make clothes for trade profit. The Irish were more brutal and performed sexual acts against women during the war. The treatment of people during the 1600s may be different than modern times, but at the time, was seen as nothing out of the ordinary.
Firstly, slavery was believed to be an acceptable option because it had its advantages. At the time, Indians had lived outside of English territory. The English had believed that the Indians were a threat
They had found an actual purpose to the women. Unlike the Irish, “English women held captive by the separatists spent a good deal of their time knitting clothing at their captors' insistence” (Drake 51). Both the English and the Indians, though they were seen as very harsh, never went to the extent of raping women or performing sexual acts on them. The English were against how the Irish acted towards women. They reacted in a negative way, defending the women and hoping the women would retaliate. The Irish, the Indians, and the English had their reasoning for the way they acted, which they felt was right at the time, though it may not seem like