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It provides evidence that Abigail will lie to get out of trouble.
Explanation:
The text shown above shows how Abigail actually became involved in witchcraft, even participating in a spell and drinking blood to harm the proctor family and manipulate John Proctor into returning to her. However, Abigail is unwilling to confess this, because she knows that the punishment for messing with witchcraft and getting involved with a married man will be very serious. So she decides to lie, casting her as a victim and preventing people who know the truth from contradicting her. This shows how Abigail is underhanded and willing to lie to get out of trouble.
Abigail is a character in "The Crucible," a play that reproduces the full story and wave of accusations that occurred during the Salem witch trials.
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C. To ensure citizens always retained the ability and right of armed resistance against their own gov't
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The vast majority of labor was unpaid. The only enslaved person at Monticello who received something approximating a wage was George Granger, Sr., who was paid $65 a year (about half the wage of a white overseer) when he served as Monticello overseer.Life expectancy was short, on many plantations only 7-9 years.Industrial slaves worked twelve hours per day, six days per week. The only breaks they received were for a short lunch during the day, and Sunday or the occasional holiday during the week.Fearing that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system -- which relied on slaves' dependence on masters -- whites in many colonies instituted laws forbidding slaves to learn to read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them.However, the health of plantation slaves was far worse than that of whites. Unsanitary conditions, inadequate nutrition and unrelenting hard labor made slaves highly susceptible to disease. Illnesses were generally not treated adequately, and slaves were often forced to work even when sick.Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, beating, mutilation, branding, and/or imprisonment. Punishment was most often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but masters or overseers sometimes abused slaves to assert dominance.
