|a Salem (Mass.) |x History |y Colonial period, ca. |a United States |x History |0 |x State & Local. |a Women |z United States |x Social conditions |0 |y 17th century. |a Witchcraft |z Massachusetts |z Salem |0 |x History |y 17th century. |a Trials (Witchcraft) |z Massachusetts |z Salem |0 |x History |y 17th century. |a History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization.
In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony.
It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. |a It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. |a The diseases of astonishment - That old deluder - The working of wonders - One of you is a devil - The wizard - A suburb of hell - Now they say there is above seven hundred in all - In these hellish meetings - Our case is extraordinary - Published to prevent false reports - That dark and mysterious season - A long train of miserable consequences. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-482) and index. |a xiv, 498 pages, 16 pages unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (chiefly color) |c 25 cm |a New York : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2015. |a The witches : |b Salem, 1692 / |c Stacy Schiff. |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d YDXCP |d BDX |d BTCTA |d GK8 |d WIM |d OCLCF |d UPZ |d JSE |d JOY |d BUR |d ZHB |d CDX |d OVY |d WEA |d MNE |d LMR |d NTEKP |d COO |d DEERP |d NDS |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO
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