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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... inhabitants to bear their charge . The first day of October , 1686 At a general meeting of the inhabitants of Salem Village it was agreed and voted by a general concurrence that whereas Joseph Hutchinson of Salem Village did give an ...
... inhabitants referring to Mr. Lawson to office in this place . 2. It was agreed and voted by a general concurrence that it was left to the Com- mittee together with Lieutenant Nathaniel Putnam to take care to transcribe our Village book ...
... inhabitants of this Village . Deed : Samuel Parris to the Salem - Village Trustees [ September 24 , 1697 ] Know all men by these presents , that I , Samuel Parris , late of Salem in the County of Essex in the Province of Massachusetts ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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