believing that witches rode on broomsticks across the sky every night alongside the devil himself. They believed that these mere humans could send their "specter" out and haunt the children of their town. Proof of their belief follows‚ in an excerpt from Cotton Mather’s Memorable Providences:<br><br>Go tell Mankind‚ that there are Devils and Witches; and that tho those night-birds least appear where the Day-light of the Gospel comes‚ yet New-Engl. has had Exemples of their Existence and Operation; and that
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people’s desire to enslave them. Instead‚ she made the claim that Blacks were the best Christians‚ because they made the best slaves. While‚ Whites‚ who make the worst slaves‚ were worst Christians. In this way‚ Stowe twisted previous ideas by Cotton Mather and other preachers that suggested that Christianity is what made
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Jump to: navigation‚ search The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle. Translation of this scanned page. [1] | Wikisource has original text related to this article: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century‚ probably in Wessex‚ during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple copies were made of that original which were
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for growing food crops which served the dual purpose of providing food for its hungry soldiers and money for its ever-growing industries. The South‚ on the other hand‚ devoted most of what arable land it had exclusively to its main cash crop: cotton (Catton‚ The Coming Fury 38). Raw materials were almost entirely concentrated in Northern mines and refining industries. Railroads and telegraph lines‚ the veritable lifelines of any army‚ traced paths all across the Northern countryside but
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The title of the article is called Bestiality in Colonial America‚ it was written by John M. Murrin. The purpose of writing this article is to show today’s society how harm it was at this time that they were treated this innocent animals with harm. And how the other perspective of these people saw them as doing these to them. Just by reading the name of the article it gives me a idea that it might have been about something awful that the natives committed towards animals. Also the natives might have
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in the entire country‚ and as for firearms‚ more of them were made in Connecticut than in all the Southern factories combined ("Civil War"‚ Encyclopedia Americana:1988). The Southerner’s believed cotton to be their biggest industry and economic boosted during the Civil War but they had no factories capable of processing the cotton. The cotton was sent to Northern factories to be processed for a fraction of the price the Union sold it back to them for. This cycle alone made a huge idiosyncrasy
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What do we know about the "Salem Witch Trials"? All we know is what has been written. Between 1682 and 1693‚ several towns’ people were tried and hanged for being accused of witchcraft. I want to take you through the events that caused such hysteria among the small village in Salem‚ Massachusetts. To understand the events of the Salem witch trials‚ it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of witchcraft occured. There were the ordinary stresses of 17th century life in Massachusetts
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that ther are a shining example for the world. In the early 1600’s‚ the lifestyles of the Puritans may not appeal to many of us‚ some of the idea come from some of the authors‚ example: William Bradford‚ John Winthrop‚ Cotton Mathers‚ John Smith‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ John Cotton‚ John Owens‚ Matthew Henry‚ Richard Baxter‚ Samuel Rutherford. Most of their writting have the common idea. Some of the author wrote with
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Salem Witch Trials Colonial times; a time without the technology we have today. It was a simpler time‚ with log cabins and woven clothes galore. It would seem like an ordinary‚ peaceful day‚ with the townsfolk doing their whereabouts. Nothing would seem to ever go wrong in this placid village. However‚ things took a turn for the worst. Groups of people began to suffer violent contortions and uncontrollable outburst of screaming. Later‚ these people would claim to be under the spell of witchcraft
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right to tax its subjects other than via their elected representatives. The new king‚ William III‚ gave Massachusetts a new charter in 1691. The new charter took power from the elected General Court and gave it to a royal governor. In the view of Mather and other Puritans this meant the rule of the ungodly! The crisis intensified when New England and New York were attacked by France and her Huron allies. Massachusetts’s governor‚ Sir William Phips sent an expedition to capture Quebec City. It was
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