Free Download Eve LaPlante, "American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans"
English | 2009 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0060750561, 0060562331 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex."