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Jae Hodges Boeken

    Deze auteur voegt haar interesse in genealogie samen met haar liefde voor schrijven om de verhalen van alledaagse mensen uit haar verleden te vertellen. Ze reist naar de plekken waar haar voorouders liepen, en gebruikt fotokunst om beelden vast te leggen die hun woorden begeleiden. Haar werk brengt het verleden tot leven en geeft stem aan degenen wier verhalen anders zouden kunnen vervagen.

    The Rose and the Whip

    • The Rose and the Whip

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      Lidia Wardell walked naked through the Newbury meeting house. She was prosecuted, and publicly whipped for this crime. This event is common historical knowledge. The Rose and the Whip is set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1663, but tells the entire story of systematic persecution of dissenters, by dissenters. Lidia relates the story of her life, and the series of events that culminated in her decision to take this action in protest of the Puritan community leaders' treatment of Quakers. As she is charged, sentenced, and tied to the whipping post, then subsequently thrashed with twenty or thirty lashes, she critically examines each of these events and reflects on how they served to transform her and her perspectives on truth and faith.

      The Rose and the Whip
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