The Salem Witch Trials ReaderHachette Books, 19 paź 2000 - 440 Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook. |
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... Lord for it ) and seeing plainly the wiles and subtlety of my accusers , by myself , cannot but judge charitably of others , that are going the same way with myself , if the Lord step not mightily in . I was confined a whole month on ...
Frances Hill. Lord's day in public it should be put to vote of all the brethren whether they thought meet that the next Lord's day after , brother Jonathan Tarbell should be desired and required in public to bring in his reasons etc. Sab ...
... Lord and Lady the King and Queen pre- sents that George Burroughs , late of Falmouth within the province of the Massa- chussets Bay in New England , clerk , the ninth day of May , in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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