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The Salem Witch Hunt

Author : Richard Godbeer
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319104886
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Hunt written by Richard Godbeer and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salem witch trials stand as one of the infamous moments in colonial American history. More than 150 people -- primarily women -- from 24 communities were charged with witchcraft; 19 were hanged and others died in prison. This second edition continues to explore the beliefs, fears, and historical context that fueled the witch panic of 1692. In his revised introduction, Richard Godbeer offers coverage of the convulsive ergotism thesis advanced in the 1970s and a discussion of new scholarship on men who were accused of witchcraft for explicitly gendered reasons. The documents in this volume illuminate how the Puritans' worldview led them to seek a supernatural explanation for the problems vexing their community. Presented as case studies, the carefully chosen records from several specific trials offer a clear picture of the gender norms and social tensions that underlie the witchcraft accusations. New to this edition are records from the trial of Samuel Wardwell, a fortune-teller or "cunning man" whose apparent expertise made him vulnerable to suspicions of witchcraft. The book's final documents cover recantations of confessions, the aftermath of the witch hunt, and statements of regret. A chronology of the witchcraft crisis, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography round out the book's pedagogical support.

Witch-Hunt

Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416903151
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Witch-Hunt written by Marc Aronson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century that claimed twenty-five lives and its impact on the community.

The Salem Witch Trials

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589791329
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials written by Marilynne K. Roach and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.

Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt

Author : Bernard Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521661668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt written by Bernard Rosenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive record of legal documents written in 1692 and 1693 in connection with the Salem witch trials. It is the most comprehensive edition of those records ever published, and includes for the first time the records in chronological order, all newly transcribed from the original manuscripts

Escaping Salem

Author : Richard Godbeer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195161297
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Salem written by Richard Godbeer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning an eye to a relatively unknown witchcraft trial in Stamford, Connecticut, Godbeer pens a gripping narrative that captures the mindset of colonial New England.

Witch Hunt

Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394819235
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Witch Hunt written by Stephen Krensky and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Salem Witch Hunt which took place in Massachusetts in 1692.

Satan & Salem

Author : Benjamin C. Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813939926
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Satan & Salem written by Benjamin C. Ray and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks beyond single-factor interpretations to offer a far more nuanced view of why the Salem witch-hunt spiraled out of control. Rather than assigning blame to a single perpetrator, Ray assembles portraits of several major characters, each of whom had complex motives for accusing his or her neighbors. In this way, he reveals how religious, social, political, and legal factors all played a role in the drama.

A Storm of Witchcraft

Author : Emerson W. Baker
Publisher : Pivotal Moments in American Hi
ISBN 13 : 019989034X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book A Storm of Witchcraft written by Emerson W. Baker and published by Pivotal Moments in American Hi. This book was released on 2015 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.

The Salem Witch Hunt

Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950922673
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book The Salem Witch Hunt written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today. Populated by colonists, many of them a generation or less from life in an England bathed in religious turmoil,

The Witches

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316200611
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Witches written by Stacy Schiff and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

Before Salem

Author : Richard S. Ross III
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627797
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Before Salem written by Richard S. Ross III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew Hopkins, who pioneered "techniques" for examining witches. This history examines the outbreak of witch hysteria in the Valley, focusing on accusations of demonic possession, apotropaic magic and the role of the clergy. Although the hysteria was eventually quelled by a progressive magistrate unwilling to try witches, accounts of the trials later influenced contemporary writers during the Salem witch hunts. The source of the document "Grounds for Examination of a Witch" is identified.

Salem Witchcraft

Author : Charles Wentworth Upham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salem Witchcraft written by Charles Wentworth Upham and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salem Witchcraft is one of the most famous books published on the Salem Witch Trials. Author Charles Upham was a foremost scholar on the subject, as well as a Massachusetts senator. Only volume one of the series is included in this Anthology.

Six Women of Salem

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0306822342
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Six Women of Salem written by Marilynne K. Roach and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton Mather called "a desolation of names." The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And although the flood of names and detail in the history of an extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be remembered and, in remembering specific lives, modern readers can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows readers what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged.

A Salem Witch

Author : Daniel A. Gagnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594163678
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book A Salem Witch written by Daniel A. Gagnon and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1692 something terrible and frightening began in Salem Village. It started with several villagers having strange fits, screaming, and unnaturally contorting themselves, and ended with almost two hundred people in jail, and at least twenty-five dead. Witchcraft accusations--claims that some inhabitants had forsaken God to become servants of the Devil--spread from Salem Village across Massachusetts, ensnaring innocent people from all strata of society under a burden of assumed guilt. One of the most significant accusations, and most unlikely, was against a seventy-one-year-old grandmother, Rebecca Nurse. The accusations against Nurse, a well-respected member in the community, seemed unbelievable. Unflinchingly, this ailing elderly woman insisted on her innocence and refused to falsely confess as some of the others did in order to save their lives. Supported by many in Salem, Nurse's family and neighbors challenged her accusers in court and prepared a thorough defense for her, yet nothing could surmount the fear of witchcraft, and she was sentenced to death. Nurse, seen as a martyr for the truth, later became the first person accused of witchcraft to be memorialized in North America. In A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse, the first full account of Nurse's life, Daniel A. Gagnon vividly recreates seventeenth-century Salem, and in the process challenges previous interpretations of Nurse's life and the 1692 witch hunt in general. Through primary source research, he reveals how the Nurse family's role in several disputes prior to the witch hunt was different than previously thought, as well as how Nurse's case helps answer the important question of whether the accusations of witchcraft were caused by mental illness or malicious intent. A Salem Witch reveals a remarkable woman whose legacy has transformed how the witch hunt has been remembered and memorialized.

In the Shadow of Salem

Author : Richard Hite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594164378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Salem written by Richard Hite and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive primary source research, In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692, by historian and archivist Richard Hite, tells for the first time the fascinating story of this long overlooked phase of the largest witch hunt in American history. Untangling a net of rivalries and ties between families and neighbors, the author explains the actions of the accusers, the reactions of the accused, and their ultimate fates. In the process, he shows how the Andover arrests prompted a large segment of the town's population to openly oppose the entire witch hunt and how their actions played a crucial role in finally bringing the 1692 witchcraft crisis to a close.

Switching Sides

Author : Tony Fels
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421424371
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Switching Sides written by Tony Fels and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starkey's devil in Massachusetts and the Post-World War II consensus -- Boyer and Nissenbaum's Salem possessed and the anti-capitalist critique -- An aside: investigations into the practice of actual witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England -- Demos's entertaining satan and the functionalist perspective -- Karlsen's devil in the shape of a woman and feminist interpretations -- Norton's in the devil's snare and racial approaches, I -- Norton's in the devil's snare and racial approaches, II

Death in Salem

Author : Diane Foulds
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762766409
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Death in Salem written by Diane Foulds and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including author Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in Salem is the first book to take a clear-eyed look at this complex time, by examining the lives of the witch trial participants from a personal perspective. Massachusetts settlers led difficult lives; every player in the Salem drama endured hardships barely imaginable today. Mercy Short, one of the “bewitched” girls, watched as Indians butchered her parents; Puritan minister Cotton Mather outlived all but three of his fifteen children. Such tragedies shaped behavior and, as Foulds argues, ultimately played a part in the witch hunt’s outcome. A compelling “who’s who” to Salem witchcraft, Death in Salem profiles each of these historical personalities as it asks: Why was this person targeted?