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![]() Putting on my bucket list to see the places connected with her and William. Something about getting older ignites a desire (at least in me) to know more about where you came from. Learn how this humble Quaker woman brought religious freedom to the colonies and became an international civil rights hero. I appreciate her more now than when I was younger. Mary Dyer was the first woman in America executed for her religious beliefs, but her death started a revolution no one could stop. My uncle brought Mary Dyer to my attention some years ago (he's the genealogist for the one side of the family). This would be a good shorter volume to get people interested in history, especially those whose lives may have been skipped over in history classes. She was a brave woman at a time when it was especially not easy to be different. You realize how lucky you are and are humbled when you realize that one wrong thing happening along the way and who knows if you would have been born, or the same person? ![]() It just puts things in perspective reading what those who came before you have been through and sacrificed. its sad to see some attitudes really haven't changed much or at all:(. She fought for what she believed in and didn't back down. ![]() ![]() Reading the words she wrote at the end was particularly moving for me. ![]()
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