After the Salem witch trials, students helped exonerate the sole remaining woman classified as a witch: Elizabeth Johnson Jr.
More than 300 years after the conclusion of the Salem witch trials, a class of middle-school students has helped exonerate the sole remaining woman legally classified as a witch. Originally expected to be a simple class project, the path to clearing Elizabeth Johnson Jr.’s name took three years and the help of a Massachusetts state senator, Diana DiZoglio .
With the guidance of LaPierre and DiZoglio, the students first worked to draft a bill exonerating Johnson. However, it stalled as in the state’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary. The students pivoted to a letter-writing campaign. After a few years of lobbying and petitioning, they were eventually able to add legislation exonerating Johnson as part of an amendment to a state budget, which passed.“It struck us that this bill, which should have been fairly easy to sign off on, wasn’t.
Carrie LaPierre with some of her students at the Old Parish Cemetery in North Andover, Mass., where they worked to establish a memorial stone in Elizabeth Johnson Jr.’s honor. (—they functioned as a way to police women’s behavior throughout the transition from feudalism to capitalism. During this time, resources like land became privatized, and people suddenly needed money to support themselves.
Though these trials concluded hundreds of years ago, their effects on women’s place in society have lasted to this day. Work that is traditionally done by women is still undervalued, and the justice system continues to punish women for exercising autonomy over their own bodies.shows how addressing injustices of the past is crucial for a more equitable future.
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