Medusa received help. He received a mirrored shield from Athena, gold, winged sandals from Hermes, a sword from Hephaestus and Hades's helm of invisibility. Since Medusa was the only one of the three Gorgons who was mortal, Perseus was able to slay her while looking at the reflection from the mirrored shield he received from Athena. During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body. Jane Ellen Harrison argues that "her potency only begins when her head is severed, and that potency
Jenny Slew Jenny Slew Jenny Slew (1719 - unknown) was one of the first black Americans to sue for her freedom, and the first person to succeed through trial by jury. Jenny Slew was born around 1719 to a free white woman, Betty Slew, and a man of African descent, likely a slave. Slew lived a life as a free woman in Ipswich, Massachusetts up until 1762. Slew was married several times, all to enslaved men. In January 1762, when Slew was forty-three, she was kidnapped from her home in Ipswich and forced into servitude by John Whipple Jr. In 1765, three