Why I Didn 't Free And No Longer A Slave

While living in Lancaster, Massachusetts, a large group of Indians attacked, as well as burned the town. Mary and her three children were captured along with twenty one others on February 10, 1676 in the midst of King Philip's war. During this time, her husband was gone to Boston to ask the Massachussetts General Assembly for military protection against the indians. Her daughter Sarah, who was six at the time, was fatally wounded a week later and eventually died. While she was imprisoned, Mary travelled around one hundred and fifty miles. The captives traveled as

Many Scholars now use the term chattel slavery or also known as traditional slavery to refer to a type of slavery where a person belonged to another person. Slavery is a system that allows individuals to sell, buy, capture, and own other individuals as their own personal property. Slaves freedom to do what they wanted were taken from them, their control over their bodies were taken from them because they were considered a person’s “Property” to whoever owned them. They were forced to work and do as they are told or they would have to suffer severe and sometimes even fatal consequences and that impacted many types of relationships. ”Slavery is theft—theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne”(Kevin Bales, Understanding of Global Slavery). Slavery with all of its demeaning, oppressing of the black masses was a complicated force and a powerful presence when it came to numerous relationships. For example, masters and slaves, slaves and their families, masters wives and black women slaves, slaves and other slaves, and blacks and whites.

Mary I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was claimed illegitimate by her father and was forced to sign papers saying that he had never married her mother (Catherine of Aragon). Mary wasn’t allowed to see her mother and was sent away by Henry VIII. She followed the Catholic ways of her mother and became quite religious. Mary was angered that her father was turning Britain into Protestants. When her father finally died, at the age of 55, Mary tried to convince her 10-year-old brother- Edward- to

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

Mary Warren is a young girl, 18 years of age. She lived as a servant to John and Elizabeth Procter. She is one of the many girls that went into the woods to “dance”. After the girls were caught they tried to take the attention of of themselves and put it on others. This caused a big commotion, that in the end caused many people to lose their lives. The girls were saying that people are witches in order to save there own lives. Marry being one of these girls was not completely happy with what she was doing.

When Mary was 5 years old her mother sent her off to live in France so Mary could marry Francis when she grew up (mother used her)

Immediately, the purpose of Mary’s captivity was ransom. Ransom is inferred from the document outlined as, “They called me to them to inquire how much my husband would give to redeem me.” The word “redeem” leads readers to inquire her freedom counted on loved ones giving up money for her

In the 1800’s convicts and emancipists were shunned by the community because they were seen as filthy, treacherous and repulsive people. Because Mary was a convict her family as well as herself were belittled by society and lived a lonely lifestyle compared to many other families. Even though Mary was excluded from the society she was left with a great deal of free time as the

Church. Also, Mary had a sister named Annette Church. Mary started off as a slave when

Empathy was the driving force of her cause. Everyone has the right of Religious Freedom hence listen to his or her own light that is God and act according to His will. Mary also had the servant-leader characteristic of persuasion. It took the very act of her sacrificing her own life for people to finally see her way. “After her death a member of the General Court uttered one of those bitter scoffs which prove the truest of all epitaphs, "She did hang as a flag for others to take example by." (Quakers in the World,

Although Mary did not always live with abusive families, the main focus in her book were the ones that treated her poorly. From roughly age twelve to her death in 1833, she was a subject to unfortunate treatment while living with the three families mentioned above, the Inghams, the D-s, and the Woods.

Through her 11 weeks of captivity, she only shed tears once. Her faith in God is what kept her going through this situation. She learns early on in her captivity that she would have to rely on God to survive. In the second remove, she states, “But the Lord renewed my strength still, and carried me along.” Mary knew God would be the one being to give her strength to push through. Even as she watched her child die and was forced to live in brutal conditions, she still put her entire faith in God. One verse that enabled her to keep going was Psalm 37:5, “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” Her strength and faith to push through make her an extraordinary

Mary is also struggling against a feeling of displacement. It’s ironic that the two things she places most importance on are the two things she doesn’t posses. Her parents ignore her up until their deaths and she has no friends due to a bitter

At the age of 15 she became a convict and was transported to Australia convicted for 7 years because of stealing a horse. That’s where her experience of becoming a convict took its place. She had to live like a servant under strict rules and regulations convicts were expected to work from sunrise to sunset. In hot weather they had an hour off in the middle of the day. Mary was assigned as nursemaid to the household of Major Francis Grose. Mary only being 15 (source 1), at the time, didn’t already have many skills, whilst no having a mother figure to learn and look up to Mary had to learn everything on her own. The effect Migration had on Mary was that her identity came out (they found out she wasn’t a boy) she developed skills and strength, and also found a husband and became the owner of his business when he passed away, and she had 7 children. If Mary didn’t become a convict she would have been in England by herself no knowing where to go because she ran away at a young age. Being a convict helped her have a life in

Eventually, she reconciled with Elizabeth and she became the next heir to England after Mary’s death. Mary suffered many terrible misfortunes over her lifetime from her parent’s divorce to her belief she was pregnant twice. One of the