The Controversial Legacy Of Hannah Duston, The Colonist Who Killed 10 Native Americans

All That's Interesting ^ | December 7, 2021 | Genevieve Carlton

[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....

[plain talk]

thanks for the info

[thefactor]

Two things can be true at once:

1) Her actions were justified, and

2) The fact that there is a statue in her honor is weird.

[SunkenCiv]

There's nothing controversial about her.

[Mack the knife]

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.)

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It is my understanding that morphine could not be used for abdominal surgery because it caused nausa (vomiting would pop the stitches); heroin was created to provide pain relief without nausea. It worked ... too well.

Early trials were successful because the patients were not addictive personalities; FDA approved usage, and 6 months later they discovered they had tens of thousands of addicts. FDA shut down usage, and gangsters were more than happy to fill the void.