Tituba of Salem Village - 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 Tituba of Salem Village write by Ann Petry. This book was released on 2015-09-08. Tituba of Salem Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young readers “will be carried along by the sheer excitement of the story” of 17th-century slavery and witchcraft by the million-copy selling author (The New York Times). In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witches are spreading like wildfire throughout the state, filling the heads of Salem’s superstitious, God-fearing residents. When the reverend’s suggestible young daughter, Betsey, starts having fits, the townsfolk declare it to be the devil’s work. Suspicion falls on Tituba, who can read fortunes and spin flax into thread so fine it seems like magic. When suspicion turns to hatred, Tituba finds herself in grave danger. Will she be judged guilty of witchcraft and hanged? Loosely based on accounts of the period and trial transcripts, Ann Petry’s compelling historical novel draws readers into the hysteria of America’s deadly witch hunts.
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem
Tituba, Reluctant Witch 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 Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem write by Elaine G. Breslaw. This book was released on 1997-08. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tituba, a young house servant from the West Indies, allegedly influenced and encouraged occult activities among teenage girls in 17th century Massachusetts, which led to the infamous witch hunts of Salem. This book offers "an imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past".--TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "A valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria".--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. 15 photos.
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
The Witchcraft of Salem Village - 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 Witchcraft of Salem Village write by Shirley Jackson. This book was released on 2011-02-02. The Witchcraft of Salem Village available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
I, Tituba, Black Witch 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 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem write by Maryse Condé. This book was released on 2009. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY
Six Women of Salem
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.
