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Richard Mather's youngest son
Who is Increase Mather?
Trials used to divert the attention of intellectuals, Blacks, and poor whites from rising up against the elites.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This book written by Cotton Mather outlined the symptoms of witchcraft.
What is Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions?
This is how the slaveholders responded to the growth of the enslaved population in Massachusetts.
What is 'they instituted a new set of slave codes?'
Cotton Mather's parents
Who are Increase Mather and Maria Cotton?
Trials used to divert the attention of intellectuals, Blacks, and poor whites from rising up against the elites.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
During the Salem Witch Trials, Black people were portrayed as this figure.
What is the devil?
This code was instituted to make sure that Blacks and Whites did not marry each other.
What is 'no interracial relationships'?
She is the grandmother of Cotton Mather and married Richard Mather after her first husband died.
Who is Sarah Cotton?
A movement led by Jonathan Edwards, to bring religion to everyone equally to save the souls of the enslaved.
What is the First Great Awakening?
Massachusetts authorities did this after the witch hunt eventually died down.
What is 'who apologized to the accused, reversed convictions, and provided reparations?"
This slave code affected indigenous people.
What is the slave code that classified indigenous and enslaved people as livestock, not as humans?
An English colonial administrator who traveled to New England for King Charles II
Who is Edward Randolph
This happened in Boston and led to more enslaved people being needed to provide free labor.
What is the Tobacco Boom?
This person never stopped defending the witch trials.
Who is Cotton Mather?
This slave code prevented blacks from rising in decision making government positions.
What is the slaved code that prevented Blacks from holding office?
When his nine-year-old daughter suffered from convulsions and chokes he blamed witches for her condition.
Who is Samuel Parris?
This important Puritan scholar died in 1728 but his toxic racist ideas still exist today.
Who is Cotton Mather?
These two things were happening in Massachusetts toward the end of the Salem Witch Trials.
What is 'Boston was becoming the intellectual capital of the colonies and tobacco was booming?'
This slave code established the basis for systemic economic inequality for the enslaved and their descendants..
What is the slave code that stated, 'all property owned by a slave is sold?"