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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... given in bond of twenty pounds to answer it at the next court , and not to come at any of the people called Quakers at their meetings . And this was the second progress of your house of correction , and the further in- fliction of your ...
... given , why Alden's looking upon him did not strike him down as well ; but no rea- son was given that I heard . But the accusers were brought to Alden to touch them , and this touch they said made them well . Alden began to speak of the ...
... given us by all approved , viz .: to join in calling a council with our dissenting brethren upon these orderly conditions ( as abovesaid given ) viz .: 1. That the case be stated which we go to council for , as 15 Acts 2. 2 . That the ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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