This war was about slavery, honestly. That was the biggest issue they were fighting for.

Makes me appreciate the way women are viewed now and what power we hold, although we still have a long way to go as far as equality.

She makes the point that their logic behind their chivalry is flawed because skin color does not change the gender of a woman. Therefore the same manners and respect should be applied to all races of women.

extremely.

I always felt this made complete sense, I don't see how I could be oppressed and join the church of the oppressors.

This is such a sad way to think. Constant anxiety because your dehumanized on a daily basis is awful.

This whole statement is so arrogant. It amazes me how they felt righteous enough and entitled to take something away from the next person that was not their's and found every reason possible to justify it.

Louisiana and it's ties to french and creole culture make sense after reading this.

Sort of reminds me of how the republicans and democrats can never agree and it only complicates decision making more. Just like the federalists and Anti Federalists.

Proving that the government needs the consent of the people just as much as the people need consent of the government.

It's ironic that the Europeans thought of other cultures as savages and barbarians because of their customs and culture were different but the more I read it's proven time after time that they acted as savages and barbarians although they proclaimed to be civilized and made it their job to intrude on other cultures and try to change them. Such Violence and rape in it's self are barbaric actions.

Dehumanization being legal is disgusting. I don't understand how they didn't expect the oppressed to act out or be violent in return. A persons freedom is vital.

He criticizes the meetings being held at her house and for doing or saying things out of the norm for her sex. Winthrop addresses her like she has overstepped her bounds as a woman. Her opinion in religious views (one of the initial issues) ends her case and determines her sentence of being banished.

The structure in their community is the same as what we have now just in a more religion abiding standpoint. In todays society we are expected to be law abiding citizens.

It just makes me think of the cruelty behind most warfare in general. When we approach war even to this day people are almost always dehumanized. civilians are looked at as animals or a life that isn't worth anything rather than a human being of equal value and importance.

I know all of this to be true but the critic who wrote this definitely wanted all of the glory details to be expressed to completely sway the public opinion with his writing.

The puritans believed that God wanted them to live by his scriptures, read them, and set an example to those who had remained in England and chose not to change their sinful ways.

New England had a very different motive than other colonies. They lived by the means of status and politics. They had a set system of how the colony was ran both religiously and in a political stance and they managed it in a way that most colonies were incapable of.

I think this story shares in common with the last one the theme of humanity innovating. Obstacles cause us to create.