The Salem Witch Trials In The Book The Crucible

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African Americans There are a lot of groups of people being discriminated and falsely accused, just like in the book The Crucible. In 1962 there were people being accused of Witchcraft. In The Crucible, By Arthur Miller showed us how witchcraft and how bad the time was in this time.My main reason for this paper is to show you that African Americans were being discriminated against and how wrong they were treated. The Salem Witch Trial was a very bad time to live in. People were dying for just being hated on, heard things about the person, or just a false accusation. People in Salem had it worse in my opinion. Many believe that if someone is going to accuse someone then they need to have the right information and evidence to back it …show more content…
Now, by God 's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it. Danforth to Francis Nurse who is trying to prove his wife is simply the victim of scheming townspeople. He is completely convinced by the girls and believes that the court is doing the work of God.” Act III (page …show more content…
A Lot of African Americans were bought and sent off to Britain. The connections that African Americans had to The Crucible was that even if there is no evidence or any proof. The higher power will always overcome the vote or rules and do what they believe is “right” The way that abigail accuses all these innocent people is just how white men back in the day used to accuse African American slaves for either ; theft, murder, robbery, manslaughter. The way the judge just listen to the girls and didn 't care to hear what others or even the innocent people said just because the judge didn 't like or care what they had to say. The white man had all the power to gain from owning African Americans. The Slave owners were the ones getting the most out of them being “persecuted” but in this case it 's slavery. Most Slave owners were nice to her slave just because they didn 't have a reason for being mean, but that doesn 't mean that the other slave owners were nice. They say some slaves were treated like family, and some were treated like prisoners. “Spoke or silent, a promise is surely made. Elizabeth Proctor to her husband, explaining why Abigail would continue to pursue him though he had ended the affair. She tells him that by sleeping with her, he made a commitment to her, at least in her eyes.” Act II (page

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