Erased, Not Absent: Witchcraft, Women, and the Silence of the Record

In this final episode of Season Two of Legacy Lore, host Sammy Jo steps back from the archives to reflect on what remains when women are erased from history but the systems that silenced them endure.Throughout this season, we traced the stories of Katherine Grady and Elizabeth Richardson, two women accused of witchcraft and executed at sea in the seventeenth century. One woman disappeared almost entirely from the record. The other survived only through court paperwork that never preserved her voice. Together, their stories reveal a deeper truth about how power, fear, and authority shape what history remembers and what it forgets.