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Puritan Life

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on December 4, 2010 at 6:31:35 pm
 

     In the years of the Salem Witch Trials, 1692 to 1693, the Puritan law was the way of life. The laws that were in place were the laws of the bible which they followed deeply. Even as the general consensus about the Puritans, that they are synonymous for democracy and freedom, many of their practices and beliefs showed that rebellion against their way of life would not be tolerated.

     

     The accusations of witchcraft was a sign of just those intolerances of that justification for the actions that local clergy and civil community leaders inflicted on the women accused, tried, and convicted. (Gragg) The Puritan Movement: Influences on American History  states that Puritan law in the colonized New World was harsh and extreme, civil law was deep into the lives of the citizen in his business and social relations; it regulated religious affairs, it dictated how to dress and even invaded the home life and directed family relations. Puritan way of life was extremely restrictive especially towards women; women were taught to read so that they could read the bible, but few learned to write because there was no reason for a woman to write, writing was a prerogative for men. Women were told and taught to be subservient to their father until they married and then to their husbands. One law forbids the wearing of lace, another of "slashed" clothes other than one slash in each sleeve and another in the back, even the length and width of a woman's sleeve was decided by law. A man could not kiss his wife in public. A young man could not court a maid without the consent of her father. (Williams)

 

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