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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: July 10, 2023 01:46PM
OT the child killer mother symbolizes American manifest destiny

This is a gruesome story I'd never heard of that was a torch lighting righteous indignation against the people who lived in America that once their being a problem went away, so did this story.

But the torch of this lady as lady liberty still burns.

"Still, the powerful dynamic the story helped to establish remains with us today. The idea of a feminized, always-innocent America has become the principle by which the United States has structured many interactions with enemy others. In international wars as on frontiers past, it has portrayed itself as the righteous, innocent, mother-goddess-of-liberty patriotically defending herself against its “savage” enemies."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gruesome-story-hannah-duston-american-colonist-whose-slaying-indians-made-her-folk-hero-180968721/

A heroine of grizzly proportion stokes the fire of freedom.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/10/2023 01:47PM by Elder Berry.

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