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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thanks for the info
1) Her actions were justified, and
2) The fact that there is a statue in her honor is weird.
There's nothing controversial about her.
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.)
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.
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