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Compare And Contrast The Salem Witch Trials And The Rosewood Massacre

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People often fear the history that the world has had because history often repeats itself. The Salem Witch Trials and The Rosewood Incident occurred in two different time periods but had many things in common such as innocent deaths due to hate and the need for revenge.

The Salem Witch Trials occurred in January of 1692 and 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts(Salem Witch Trials). The main child of the trials was Abigail Williams who accused many innocent people of witchcraft(Salem Witch Trials). Abigail knew the consequences of the accusations would be to hang the people doing the witchcraft(Salem Witch Trials). Abby then convinced her friends to follow the accusations and because of them, the girls became cold blooded murderers(Salem Witch Trials). Now the girls didn't directly kill them, they accused the innocent people of witchcraft and got those people killed(Salem Witch Trials). Bridget …show more content…

The Rosewood Incident was also known as the Rosewood Massacre(Rosewood Massacre). A rumor claimed a white woman was raped by a black man(Rosewood Massacre). Before the rape a white teacher was killed in school(Rosewood Massacre). Jesse Hunter was a black man and was thought to be the killer he was also accused of the rape allegations(Rosewood Massacre). From these incidents white men took matters into their own hands(Rosewood Massacre). A white mob suspected Aaron's cousin, sylvester carrier, a Rosewood resident of harboring the fugitive, Jesse Hunter(Rosewood Massacre). On January 4, 1923 a group of twenty to thirty white men approached the carrier home and shot the family dog(Rosewood Massacre). When sylvester’s mother Sarah came to the porch to confront the mob they shot and killed her as well(Rosewood Massacre). Sylvester them defended his home by killing two men and wounding four in the ensuing battle before he too was killed(Rosewood

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