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Discussion Post
Choose one question from each of the following and answer each question in a well-developed paragraph for a total of three paragraphs. Use references to the assigned readings (and only the assigned readings) to support your answers. Your answers will be graded in how well they show attention to the text. This means - if you answer correctly - at times you may be going against accepted cliches and stereotypes about the Puritans many of which are not based on the actual historical evidence but on the work of writers who came later and were not Puritans.
Follow all instructions closely and think deeply for successful completion of this Discussion.
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I. Samuel Sewall
A. Carefully read the sections in Sewall's diary concerning the courtship of Madam Winthrop. What surprising attitudes and behaviors do you see in the women in Sewall's world?
B. What is Sewall's position on slavery? Note when this anti-slavery tract was written. Speculate on what might have been had his view been adopted that early.
C. What was Sewall's confession and what does he ask the whole community to do? Get the instant assignment help.
II. Mary Rowlandson
A. What were some of the wisest choices that Mary Rowlandson made during her captivity? (Think of choices that helped her survive.) Explain how they were wise.
B. Rowlandson had varied relationships with her captors. Describe some of these relationships. Some show cruelty and some show respect. Give examples of both.
C. Describe the behavior of Rowlandson's master or owner as her release is negotiated. What do you think this shows?
III. John Marrant
A. Describe John Marrant's personality and give examples that show his character traits.
B. What is the single most dramatic event in his narrative?
C. What is unusual about Marrant's home life with his family and what part does this play in the narrative?