MAN(un)KIND

 

ON THIS DAY IN 1682 ...

InSalem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Bridget Bishop, the firstcolonist to be tried in the Salem witch trials, is hanged after being foundguilty of the practice of witchcraft.

Trouble in the small Puritan community began in February1692, when nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams, thedaughter and niece, respectively, of the Reverend Samuel Parris, 

beganexperiencing fits and other mysterious maladies. A doctor concluded that thechildren were suffering from the effects of witchcraft, 

and the young girlscorroborated the doctor’s diagnosis. Under compulsion from the doctor and theirparents, the girls named those allegedly responsible for their suffering.

And Cancel Culture has been thriving in America ever since.

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