Woman Cleared of Witchcraft 300 Years Later, Thanks to Eighth Grade Class

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Woman Cleared of Witchcraft 300 Years Later, Thanks to Eighth Grade Class
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Society is capable of believing women... even if it takes literal centuries.

y 1692, when she was 22, she was accused of witchcraft along with her mother, aunts, and grandfather. It’s unclear why,

but her grandfather allegedly described her as “simplish at best,” according to Emerson W. Baker, a history professor at Salem State University who spoke “So that certainly might have singled her out as someone who might be different,” Baker said. “Frankly, being accused of witchcraft in 1692 would have been a stain worse than murder.”e Salem Witch Trials took place between 1692 and 1693.

descendants to fight for exoneration on her behalf. Which damn, there’s no rest for the wicked but there’s truly no rest for women who decide not to have children.

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