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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... answer to it : I told them I would consider of it . 28 March 1693 The abovesaid brethren , together with said Hutchinson , came again at night for an answer to the abovesaid paper : I told them I had not considered of it yet . 14 April ...
... answer in writing six days before said meeting . THIS 13 NOV . 1693 PETER CLOYES SAMUEL NURSE JOHN TARBELL When we had this paper , we asked them whether this was all that they would now come to . They said yes . Then brother Cloyes ...
... answer ) , instead of lovingly speaking their minds , they read a dateless paper re- flecting upon church and elders ... answer to said libel , to his great disquietment . 6. Their ( with 2 others not in full communion ) restless pursuit ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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