Women accused of witchcraft had an economic bias. One historian believes that those accused of witchcraft were the “-moderately poor” not the poorest women(Karlsen Ch. 3, Paragraph 1). Eunice Cole, for example, was not dirt poor but not middle class filed to receive poor relief yet was denied. Eunice was accused of being a witch after rebuking Hampton about how a man in the same economic status as her was receiving aid. Most women were economically dependent on the male members of their family. Even if a women could get a job a job they were few and far between with meager wages that rarely allow women to support themselves. Furthermore, if a married women had an income all of it would belong to the husband. Ann Dolliver the deserted wife
