woman – In these time women were not received well and their testimony wasn’t worth much in court.\u00c2\u00a0 Even after Wilson attesting that her children were killed by her lover who did not have the strength to man up and accept his responisbility no one would take her word for it without hard evidence.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead they considered her the guilty party before going into trial and were determined to not be convinced otherwise.<\/p>\n
trial – Now in our times every man is supposed to receive a fair and speedy trial.\u00c2\u00a0 This law wasn’t practiced back in the days when Wilson lived.\u00c2\u00a0 Often times many people went into trial already knowing based on their gender, status, and race what the verdict and sentence would be.\u00c2\u00a0 This proves to be the case of Wilson.<\/p>\n
repentance – Repentance exists in Wilson’s narrative but its not direct.\u00c2\u00a0 It comes from a sorrow from a mother who has lost her children and can’t get them back.\u00c2\u00a0 Her pain is taken as regret by those who view it from outside of the cell bars while she serves out her prison sentence, and thus to them it seems as if she is guilty and only telling a different story to get out of her punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
woman – In these time women were not received well and their testimony wasn’t worth much in court.\u00c2\u00a0 Even after Wilson attesting that her children were killed by her lover who did not have the strength to man up and … Continue reading