The Salem witch trials
Subtitle: a primary source history of the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts
By: Jenny MacBain.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Primary sources in American history; Primary sources in American history (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Rosen Pub. Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Juvenile literature.; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem.; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem.; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Planting the seeds; title: 2. Examinations, pinpricks, and prisons; title: 3. Judges and accusers; title: 4. Other men of conscience; title: 5. A brutal execution; title: 6. The beginning of the end.