The story of the Salem witch trials : "we walked in clouds and could not see our way"
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The story of the Salem witch trials : "we walked in clouds and could not see our way"
Prentice Hall, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-296) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Appropriate as a supplementary text for undergraduate survey courses in U.S. history and Colonial American history.
This book provides a much needed synthesis of the recent scholarship on the Salem Witch Trials. It places the trials into context of the Great European Witch Hunt and of witch hunting in 17th century New England within an accessible narrative format that is as dramatic as it is informative.
Table of Contents
1. A Biography of a Terrible, but Perfectly Normal Superstition.
2. Having Familiarity with the Devil.
3. The Evil Hand is upon Them.
4. Is Not this a Brand Plucked from the Burning?
5. If They are Let Alone, We Should All be Devils and Witches.
6. God Will Deliver Us Out of the Hands of Unmerciful Men.
7. God Will Give You Blood to Drink.
8. What a Sad Thing it is to See Eight Firebrands of Hell Hanging There.
9. It were Better that Ten Suspected Witches Should Escape, than that One Innocent Person Should be Condemned.
10. Ruined in the Mistaken Mismanagement of the Terrible Affair Called Witchcraft.
Epilogue.
Notes.
A Select Bibliography.
Appendix.
Index.
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