![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1692: 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. ![]() From the acclaimed author of A Delusion of Satan, a unique gathering of firsthand accounts about the background, course, and repercussions of the Salem witch trials. ![]()
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