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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... desired and required in public to bring in his reasons etc. Sab : 4 Nov. 1694 After sermon in the afternoon , it was propounded to the brethren , whether the church ought not to inquire again of our dissenting brethren after the reason ...
... desired to bring in such matters as they desired a council for . This was much urged , but to no purpose . They pleading that the explanation of said advice dated 10 Sep- tember last and sent to us , was that a council should be first ...
... desired our dissenting brethren to acquaint us whether they would accept of our last propos- als , which they desired this day to consider of . They answered that they were will- ing to drop the six churches from whose elders we had had ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
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