The answer can be it but I don't know if it is a first-person singular pronoun.
In The Boy Who Harnessed the wind, William clubs the windmill and faces the villagers, who think he is foolish.
The Treaty of Kanagawa<span> was an 1854 agreement between the United States of America and the government of Japan. The treaty, which was essentially imposed on the Japanese by threat of force, opened two Japanese ports for trade with American ships.</span>
I’m not 100% sure of the people who spoke out to defend but there was punishment which resulted in death. They would drown them or execute them, I’m assuming they would do the same to the defenders in fear of them also being related to witchcrafts somehow