Ama Hemmah
On November 20, 2010, Ama Hemmah was attacked in Ghana by five people convinced she was a witch.
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Caroline
On Sunday, June 9, 1839, Caroline, a Black woman enslaved by Minerva Buchanan Crawford and Andrew Alexander Crawford, was hanged in Cane Hill Township in Washington County, Arkansas.
Parbati Rawat
Twenty-one-year-old Parbati Rawat died of smoke inhalation in a small, windowless menstruation hut in Nepal in 2019.
Molly Craig
Aboriginal Australian who was part of the Stolen Generation
Daisy Kadibil
Aboriginal Australian who was part of the Stolen Generation
Gracie Cross
Aboriginal Australian who was part of the Stolen Generation
Ivory Lady of Valencia
The so-called “Ivory Lady” of Valencia, Spain was assumed for years to have been a man because, as one researcher put it, as a rich and prominent person, it must be a male.
Rebecca Nurse
Rebecca Nurse was a respected wife, mother, and grandmother, known for piety and benevolence. She was a covenant church member—the highest status a Puritan could achieve. Yet none of this kept the 71-year-old from being executed as part of the Salem witch trials in 1692.
Anna Petrovna
1700s Russian grand duchess
Margery Spalding
Heroine of the American Revolutionary War