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.
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.
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?
“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.
Lesson to learn - don’t kill a woman’s baby and then go to sleep with her in your home... the Indian family they placed her with probably didn’t know that her infant was murdered in front of her.
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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....”
And? Your point here is what, she should have remained a captive gotten into a “fair fight” to win back her freedom?
Go away.
The myth of “the noble savage” is just that. A myth.
Wow. Who knew Indians were such sound sleepers?
I am proud to root for her. My husband was a direct descendant of Hannah and I am a direct descendant of her sister Abigail. So go Hannah!
A hero should always be respected as a hero.
Good. My own family was affected by this sort of thing.
No quarter.