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Chastity Hoar: My Life
Paperback
Christian FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9780595403035
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Aug 21 2006
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Such is the world that Chastity Hoar faces in seventeenth-century Boston, and such is the world that two of her friends, the historical Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer, face in their dissent against the iron laws of that theocracy.
The whipping post, the stocks, the pillory, and, worst of all, the gallows remind the women daily of the need to walk carefully and speak softly. Disobey your husband, dress immodestly, forget Sabbath church services, engage in alleged witchcraft or criticize the prevailing religious orthodoxy, and you risked severe punishment, including death by hanging.
As the spirited Chastity makes her life in the colony, forced to marry a cruel magistrate and religious elder; she sees and experiences behavior and practices almost defying belief. The more she sees and experiences, the more resilient she becomes.
We know from history the fates of Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer. Chastity, narrating her story, shows us how brave women, facing horrendous obstacles, built their lives in America's early days.
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