As a victim of the Indian attacks, Mary Rowlandson wrote a vivid description (her short book, "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson") of the eleven weeks and five days she spent living with the Native Americans.
1. If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.
2. If any one bring an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if it be a capital offense charged, be put to death.
4. If he satisfy the elders to impose a fine of grain or money, he shall receive the fine that the action produces.
I just found the laws with their consequences. Hope this helps
<span>Ida B Wells used a strategy we would today called "data journalism" in her anti-lynching campaign. She traveled through the south keeping records of all the lynchings that occured and the reasons for them. She then put this together in her book "A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings In the United States" establishing several arguments of how lynchings were used to control African Americans.</span>
The Sugar Act
also known as the American Revenue Act, this was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764. It was the first tax enacted by the British against the colonists for the purpose of raising revenue.
