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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... MARY WALCOTT THOMAS HAINES MARY GOODALE GEORGE INGERSOLL ELIZABETH GOODALE BENJAMIN STACY MARY HUTCHINSON SARAH PUTNAM ROBERT MORALL ELIZABETH ALLIN BRAY WILKINS ANNA WILKINS NATHANIEL PUTNAM REBEKKA PUTNAM JONATHAN PUTNAM , RACHEL ...
... Mary Walcott said : the said Abigail & Mary said the room was full of them , then the said Hutchinson & Ely Putnam stabbed with their rapiers at a ventor , then said Mary & Abigail , you have killed a great black woman of Stoningtown ...
... Mary & Deliverance Hobbs as they attested , & also almost choked Abigail Hobbs , as also testified , & Mr English then run a pin into Mary's hand as she attested . Deposition of Mary Warren v . George Burroughs , John Alden , Martha ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
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