Mum Bett Research Paper

In african american many rivers to cross episode 2 i learned that 12.5 million americans were shipped to the new world. 10.7 million survived the middle passage. So about 10.7 million slaves was in the us at the time of american’s birth. So as we all should know slaves had no chance of winning a lawsuit for their freedom except for a slave named Mumbett who not only filed a lawsuit for her freedom but was suing her owner. Mumbet's reason for suing her owner was that she was equal to them and had rights just like them. She ended up winning the case and becoming one of the first slaves in Massachusetts to profitably sued for her freedom which helped encouraged the state of massachusetts to abolish slavery. This course case name was Brom and Betts

Mum Betts was the first successfully to sue for her freedom. Born a slave circa 1792 , spending her young adult years in the household of John Ashley in Massachusetts. Mum Betts was a brave African American woman who was well known for fighting for her freedom as a slave.

Hannah, “Mum Bett’s” owner, was angry. She was about to hit Lizzie, “Mum Bett’s” sister, with a hot kitchen shovel, but “Mum Bett” couldn’t let this happen to her sister. She jumped in front to protect Lizzie and got a scar on her face, that remained exposed to show how harshly she was treated. “Mum Bett,” also known as Elizabeth Freeman, performed this heroic act in 1780. There are several accounts of the story. Another version of it is that Freeman had a daughter named Betsy who Hannah attempted to hit with the kitchen shovel. But Freeman’s story started in 1742 when she was born to slave parents in Claverack, New York. She was sold when she was six months old, possibly with her sister. Freeman became the property of Hannah, but when Hannah

Lucretia Mott was born in January of 1793 and died in November of 1880. During her 87 years on the Earth, she did everything that she could in order to demand change and social reform in societal programs in which she did not believe. She was born a Quaker, also known as the Society of Friends, a religious group which believed in relative equality and in nonviolence. In the period in which she was born and raised, women were supposed to be seen and not heard. They were to be subservient to men in all things, including the home and the work force, if indeed the woman were allowed to work at all. Yet Mott, nee Coffin, refused to let society marginalize her and demanded equality. Certain rights, she believed, were inalienable and should not be denied because of either gender or racial differences. She worked for abolition, for women's rights, and many other branches of social reform.

The Puritan Dilemma is a biography written by Edmund S. Morgan about the life of John Winthrop, a lawyer who had money beyond belief and was one of the key pieces to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The story starts off by explaining the family line of Winthrop. I found it interesting that Winthrop spent very little time with his family, his dad in particular. His father was a very wealthy businessman and spent most of his time guiding the family fortune. As Winthrop grew older is life began to become more grounded in faith in God. He had a strong faith, but was tempted with worldly pleasure and so became almost corrupt, but not corrupt enough to lose his name. Soon the 1620’s rolled around and the depression affected the town of Suffolk which

LeAnn Struckman paper’s thesis is that the Puritan community, the weather, political events, and illnesses that were happening to the Salem region led to the Salem witch trial. This is supported by looking at the Puritan community and establishing the context behind the event. The paper starts by looking at the importance of the Massachusetts Bay Charter. This gave them the right to establish a colony in the New England area and the protections that came with it. The Puritans believed and desired to create an ideal society in the New World that England would want to emulate. The paper claims that the Puritans believed that the church and state should not be separate, which made their Puritan religious doctrines flow over into their government. This influences the role of the church and its membership. The Puritans believed in a strict system to gain membership of the church. Church membership carried over into the governance of the state and certain political rights like voting. The following generations were not as involved with the church and membership soon declined as they were unable to meet the strict standards. This decline created tension within the church, which created the need for reforming the standards of membership. However, with the change in membership there still was tension between the Puritans.

In the trial of Anne Hutchinson, we meet a well intentioned yet lost people described and labelled as the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company. These self governing Puritans, once a people who sought God to set them on their way, settled only to be found as a people who simply lost their way. This journey to lost began when first motivated by a desire for religious reform and separation from the liturgy, ceremonies and practices of the Church of England. Once they banned together, they set on their way and traveled in groups to the New World. With the Word of God as their ultimate authority and the desire for a personal relationship with God, these people landed in Boston in 1630 united to self govern the newly founded Massachussets Bay Colony. Unfortunatly, this self rule resulted in a government of intolerance, fear and a liturgy not much different from what was once found in the Church of England. A system designed to set apart outward morality, or sanctification, to strengthen the authority of the Church only worked to neglect the place of true piety purposed to strengthen the spiritual lives of the people it served.

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When I saw this assignment my aunt immediately came to mind because I know she is currently trapped in vicious circles. For this paper I will say her name is Felicia. My Aunt Felicia has a combination of many vicious circles such as poverty, racial and cultural alienation, and senselessness. It makes sense that she has a mixture of all of these because they all seem to correspond in some way. Anyways, my Aunt Felicia never really tried in school because no one made her and she did not have the drive to try at all, so now she has undeveloped skills. Her reading, writing, and arithmetic skills could stand to be greatly improved. Although, she graduated high school she did not have the skills to go to college. Now she is greatly under employed

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I’m sitting at the kitchen table, working on summer homework while babysitting my cousins when I hear: “How is Marlene your mom?”. I look up from my work and focus on my eight-year old cousin’s questioning face. How do I answer a question like that? I was adopted at eight months old from China, she is the only mom I know. I don’t know my birth mother, and from what I know I was at the orphanage for a few months before. As I stammer my way through an explanation that I hope he a curious eight year old can understand, I think about who I really am, how my family came to be and how it can be confusing for him to understand something that seems so different from his family. But, my family is not too different from his. My mother has known me since eight months, so she has been there for the major milestones like any other parent. Then, in his usual way, he hears the answer and goes on to ask what movie we can watch that night, the conversation apparently was over.

In the many years prior to the Witch Trials of 1692 exploration and settlement of the Americas was motivated by many things. The first motivation of exploration to the Americas was God, gold and glory. Many people also fled Europe in fear of religious persecution. The settlement of the first English colony known as Jamestown was motivated by greed and money. This colony struggled due to environmental conditions and a lack of unity. The settlement of Massachusetts Bay colony was motivated mainly by religion. Aboard the Arbella o the Puritans way to the colony John Winthrop, a lawyer and leader of the English Puritans migration to Massachusetts Bay colony, delivered a sermon famously called “City Upon a Hill”. It discussed ideas of a perfect Utopian society with certain moral values and ideals. However the idea of a perfect and pure society influenced the Witch Trials of 1692, which led to women being labeled as “witches” due to patriarchal views, mental illness and self incrimination. Therefore many women were falsly accused, outcasted and killed.