Posted on 06/08/2024 1:33:03 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
After being kidnapped by Native Americans in 1697, Hannah Duston brutally killed her captors with a tomahawk — including six children.
In 1861, a small new England town erected a monument to Hannah Duston — possibly the first in the U.S. to honor a woman. But not everyone thinks Duston was a hero.
Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death....
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Controversial legacy?
“According to the story Duston later told Puritan minister Cotton Mather, her captors promptly killed her baby by dashing “the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree.”
I’m part Cherokee and there is no controversy in this story as far as I am concerned. After what they did to her baby all bets were off and she killed and scalped those indians.
If Hollywood was less gay they’d make a movie about her. They want “girl power” films and you can get more powerful than her story.
Kidnapped. Was she raped too? Bless her for defending herself
Anyone have a loaf of bread? There is a lot of baloney in that article, might as well have a sandwich.
“The past is a other country. They do things differently there.” Perhaps it is best to first try to understand people of long ago on their own terms before imposing one’s own modern standards on them. I don’t see much of that here.
I love a story with a Happy Ending, it would only be better if Hannah had raised a Military Force and returned to the field to Exterminate any other members of the savage group that kidnapped, imprisoned and enslaved her and her community.
Getting one's brains dashed out on a tree or rock was actually quicker and more humane.
There has always been brutality.
History is what it is.
No, many who are literate think she was a heroine.
What if anything is “controversial” about killing your captors who murdered your child in cold blood. God Blesses this woman to this day. Libs shut the actual hell up!
“and placed with a Native American family.”
and again—”being placed with a Native American family”
I didn’t know modern liberals described slavery in such a gentle way.
She was taken as a slave by people who had just murdered dozens of her friends and neighbors of which 15 were children and they had murdered her own child after first taking the child as a slave or for ransom and dragged her into a life of slavery and cruelty worse than death.
She and the other enslaved who helped her did what they had to do to escape.
And that was 200 years before heroin.
(Invented by Bayer in an attempt to create a drug that had the effects of cocaine without the niddling side effect of addiction. Didn't work.)
No doubt that's also woke stupidity. No statues at all to women like Betsy Ross, Dolly Madison, Joan of Arc or even the Virgin Mary?
sounds like the first slave revolt
a one woman slave revolt
“If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy.”
Indians killing infants or small children when taking captives was very very common. They slowed down escaping and traveling back to camp and preoccupied the slaves from being hard workers and were merely useless eaters if taken alive . Brain dashing was the normal method.
Older captured children were sometimes kept if they could keep up with the march, and had potential as adoptees or workers.
Hannah adopted the culture and values of her captors.
Same here. I’ll second that.
That she killed the children, I guess, is controversial to some. I’m not sure what she was supposed to do. Leave them alive to fend for themselves? Was one old enough to do that? Would that one have gotten him or herself to other Indians soon enough that they could hunt down and go after Hannah and the other two and catch up with them?
Take the kids with them? They would have made noise whereas Hannah and the other two would have wanted to keep as quite as possible when traveling in areas where they thought they could be heard.
Tie the kids up? Maybe they would have been found before they died of thirst but long after Hannah and the other two were far enough away they couldn’t be tracked down. But maybe they would have died a slow death.
Yeah, I don’t recall every hearing about Hannah and did a search and didn’t see that anyone had every posted about her.
History cannot be judged in the rear view mirror.
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