Six Women of Salem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Women of Salem write by Marilynne K. Roach. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Six Women of Salem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Salem Witch Trials write by Marilynne K. Roach. This book was released on 2004. The Salem Witch Trials available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Witches
The Witches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Witches write by Stacy Schiff. This book was released on 2015-10-27. The Witches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Witch-Hunt
Witch-Hunt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witch-Hunt write by Marc Aronson. This book was released on 2003-12-02. Witch-Hunt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Death in Salem
Death in Salem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in Salem write by Diane Foulds. This book was released on 2013-08-06. Death in Salem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
