HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Due Process, Fornication, Salem Witch Trials
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All women are daughters of eve. eve is the first in sin, picking and eating the apple when she was told not to. Family was the central unit of puritan society: migrated in families, therefore had a more balanced sex ratio, more helpful environment than the chesapeake bay area, people lived longer, children lived longer, sex ratio continued. Foundation of the family was the marriage: a big deal in western christianity, and an even bigger deal for. Puritans: needed to be married before having children, so that the father could be sure who the children were. Adultery was a sin: no sex outside of marriage. 1 married person and one not = adultery and fornication. If you committed adultery, you could be subjected to public humiliation: marriage should be peaceful and harmonious and have sex within the marriage. All pleasures were allowable and to be enjoyed. However, they were to be secondary to one"s praise for god.
