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== Abigail Bailey, 1815, Abominable Wickedness == | == Abigail Bailey, 1815, Abominable Wickedness == | ||
| − | + | Abigail Bailey's memoir was very interesting to read. Laws intended for men and women did not always protect women. Probably not in this case either. Abigail admits her loyalties to her husband but when she realizes her husband is having an incestuous realtionship with their daughter she is unable to ignore it. She confronts him and threatens to take him to justice. She justifies her actions by saying to him that she is "acting on principle and with mature consideration." She knew that if her daughter did not testify against her father that it would be very hard to prove what he had done. She probably felt that one would believe her. Afterall, Abigail was a woman and women should not speak out against their husbands. The value of a man's word over a womans was not the same then. Instead of putting her daughter through the ridicule of the community she confronts her husband. She threatens to use the process of the law to scare him. She believes that the legal system will not uphold the law for her. Abigail uses the one power she does have over her husband - she refuses to be intimate with him. | |
| + | -Marsha Himes | ||
== New Spain’s (New Mexico’s) moral code as dictated by the Spanish Crown in 1752 == | == New Spain’s (New Mexico’s) moral code as dictated by the Spanish Crown in 1752 == | ||
