john winthrop saw the the desire arriving from his window and he noted that event in his diary. writing it down. recorded it as real and as a fact of history. we can conjecture what happened to several of the individuals purchased off of the desire. they were split apart. more than likely samuel maverick, a large land owner, bought them. in new england bound, which was published in 2016, we learned that maverick ordereds male slaves to rape his female slaves so that he could increase his stock of owned bodies. the rape victim was not happy with this breeding plan. and she protested verbally. the female voice of african protest emerges early. in the same year that the the desire landed, 1638. not agreeing that her womb was another man's property. she complained to a visiting englishman who later wrote about her displeasure. this anonymous woman, anonymous, not just because we do not know her name but also because slavery cut out her name and personhood. enters history with a strong undeniable voice. and that was also what phillis did more than a century later. led by john winthro

john winthrop arrives with the winthrop fleet coming into salem. why? because salem is older than boston. they hadn't created boston yet. salem was the first settlement of the colony. salem is where it all starts. and some time in that process of sailing over or arrival or shortly afterwards, of course winthrop gives his famous sermon a model of christian charity which in it has the famous words, we shall be as a city upon a hill in the eyes of the world are upon us. in many ways, then, salem is that city upon the hill, right? it is that shining example. metaphorically, physically. this is it. this is the start of the puritan experiment in massachusetts bay. it is supposed to be a place where people walk hand in hand with each other and with god and live in peace and harmony. and i think maybe that's part of the answer as to why we remember the salem witch trials and why we will never forget them. because think of this tremendous fall from grace from this ideal of 1630. 1692, 62 years later while people who were still alive who heard winthrop give that