The Trial of Hannah Duston

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Summary: The Slander of Hannah Duston
Review: I encourage people to read this book. The story of Hannah Duston should be known if only to illustrate the conditions under which early settlers had to live.

This book however, attempts to slander the name of Hannah Duston. The author interjects issues that are completely absurd with no basis in fact in order to case an evil motive over what Hannah did. He fails to mention that indian captives sometimes died while being subjected to the gauntlet. Indian children also participated and would sometimes throw axes at the captives as they attempted to run the gauntlet and come out the other end with their lives. The author also tries to portray being a slave to the indians as a pleasant experience. The author should say that to an African American and tell them they shouldn't complain because it was a pleasant experience. And the scalps, at the time of Hannah's ordeal the pratice of paying a reward for indian scalps was abolished. Her husband, Thomas, was the one who successfuly petitioned to be paid a bounty to help offset the damages his family suffed during the indian raids.

Regards,
Dave Dustin
So, Hannah didn't take the scalps to get money. Her motive was to show evidence of her ordeal. People continuously fail to view the actions of Hannah in the time period in which they occurred. It does sound horrible that she took scalps but obviously, in 1698 it wasn't considers so horrible. In fact, all through the colonies Hannah was considered a herion.

This book is purely a ficticious account based on research that was based on a ficticious account of the incident. So, it's just one persons misquided fantasy about this event.

Read this book but please do further research before passing judgement like Mr. Pyne has done.

Rating:
Summary: The Slander of Hannah Duston
Review: I encourage people to read this book. The story of Hannah Duston should be known if only to illustrate the conditions under which early settlers had to live.

This book however, attempts to slander the name of Hannah Duston. The author interjects issues that are completely absurd with no basis in fact in order to case an evil motive over what Hannah did. He fails to mention that indian captives sometimes died while being subjected to the gauntlet. Indian children also participated and would sometimes throw axes at the captives as they attempted to run the gauntlet and come out the other end with their lives. The author also tries to portray being a slave to the indians as a pleasant experience. The author should say that to an African American and tell them they shouldn't complain because it was a pleasant experience. And the scalps, at the time of Hannah's ordeal the pratice of paying a reward for indian scalps was abolished. Her husband, Thomas, was the one who successfuly petitioned to be paid a bounty to help offset the damages his family suffed during the indian raids.

Regards,
Dave Dustin
So, Hannah didn't take the scalps to get money. Her motive was to show evidence of her ordeal. People continuously fail to view the actions of Hannah in the time period in which they occurred. It does sound horrible that she took scalps but obviously, in 1698 it wasn't considers so horrible. In fact, all through the colonies Hannah was considered a herion.

This book is purely a ficticious account based on research that was based on a ficticious account of the incident. So, it's just one persons misquided fantasy about this event.

Read this book but please do further research before passing judgement like Mr. Pyne has done.