Satan & Salem : the witch-hunt crisis of 1692 / Benjamin C. Ray.
The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts. Over 150 people were imprisoned, and nineteen men and women, including a minister, were executed by hanging. Th...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- The stains upon our land
- Samuel Parris and the new covenant
- Tituba's confession
- The village girls who cried "witch!"
- The magistrates
- Reports of witches' meetings
- Thomas Putnam
- Andover
- Confessions
- The apparition and trial of George Burroughs
- Samuel Parris, "the beginner and procurer"
- Blame and shame
- Mapping the Salem witch trials
- Indians, Africans, gender, and the "black man"
- The court records.