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DO NOT MERGE THIS PROFILE WITH SOUTHWICK-127. LAWRENCE AND CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK HAD TWO DAUGHTERS NAMED PROVIDED.[1]
John Greenleaf Whitter's poem "Cassandra Southwick" -- while it bears, for whatever reason, her mother's given name rather than her own -- in fact tells with reasonable accuracy the tale of Quaker Provided Southwick and her younger brother Daniel, whom puritan governor John Endicott of Massachusetts Bay attempted to send into slavery in Virginia or Barbados. Endecott's vindictive sentence, part of his wider punitive effort to banish or even exterminate the Quaker faith -- as further witnessed by his lethal banishment of the senior Southwicks and the hanging of several Quakers, including Mary Barrett Dyer in 1660 -- was thwarted only because he could find no ship's captain willing to become an accessory to the scheme.
Whittier's poem -- which, given his own Quaker beliefs, unsurprisingly judges Endicott harshly and is profoundly sympathetic to Provided and her sibling -- may be seen on the profile page of the namesake sister who predeceased her, Provided Southwick.
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