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Ain't I a Woman? That man over there say a woman needs to be helped into a carriage and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helped me into carriages  or over mud puddles or gives me the best place... And ain't I a woman? Look at me Look at my arm? I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns and no man could hear me... And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man -  when I could get to it - and bear the lash as well and ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sent into slavery and when I cried out a mother's grief none but Jesus heard me... And ain't I a woman? that little man in black there say a woman can't have as much rights as a man cause Christ wasn't a woman Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with him! If the first woman God ever made was strong enou...

A fictional illustration of the trial of Rebecca Nurse Between February of 1692 and May 1693 a witch finding hysteria that occurred in Massachusetts, America. These are known as the Salem witch trials because a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several old women in the colony. The trials resulted in twenty executions, one of the so called 'witches' was seventy- one years old Rebecca Nurse. Rebecca Nurse was a devout Christian and a kindly family woman, as well as being the pillar of the community. She was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk and went on the Mayflower voyage to New England (aka America). Rebecca's parents were William and Joanna Towne. William and Joanna also had three other daughters- Susan (died aged five), Mary (executed alongside her sister during the Salem witch trials) and Sarah (who was also convicted but survived and defended her innocent sisters but failed and was excommunicated along with the Nurses); th...