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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... killed of our neighbors in Falmouth , or Casco Bay , and on the 12th instant , Mr. Josselyn sent me [ a ] brief letter written from under the hand of Mr. Burroughs the minister . He gives an ac- count of thirty two killed and carried ...
... killed two of his wives . The first he smothered and the second he choked , and killed two of his own children . Deposition of Benjamin Hutchinson v . George Burroughs Benjamin Hutchinson said that on the 21st April 92 Abigail Williams ...
... killed with Indians . September 21 , Nicholas Reed ( 18 years ) Edward Putnam's man killed with ye Indians . 1691 July 3 , Godfrey Sheldon ( 24 years ) killed by ye Indians . July 4 , Thomas ( 18 years ) killed at Casko . July 5 ...
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Witchcraft | 3 |
The Massachusetts Bay Colony | 25 |
PART II | 55 |
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