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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... church - meeting appointed as abovesaid at the pastor's , twenty brethren ( be- sides the pastor and the abovesaid displeased brethren , viz . three of them , viz . Jonathan Tarbell , Thomas Wilkins and Samuel Nurse ) being present ...
... church at Malden dated 11 Sept. 1693 ( and , as we supposed , to other churches they then sent to for a council ) wherein they do fallaciously disown the abovesaid peti- tion to his Excellency , notwithstanding all their own 11 names ...
... church to stay after the dismission of the congregation ; and then we appointed a church- meeting at Deacon Putnam's for farther agitation the 6 in- stant . Dec. 6 , 1694 At the meeting above concluded upon , we agreed that the church ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
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