Reading the American Past, illustrates how people place others in racial and gender expectations / stereotypes. On Friday August 1681 in Henrico county Virginia Katherine Watkins a white women accused John Long a mulatto slave of raping her. John Long supposedly stuff a handkerchief in her mouth and raped her between her and Thomas Cockes house. Those who testified stated it involved a late afternoon of cider drinking. Several witness described Katherine throwing herself to several of Cockes slaves. Watkins neighbors were suspicious of Katherine and her husband Henry Watkins because they were Quakers. Quakers is a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox. “A quaker believer did not resort to court
