The Witches
Subtitle: Salem, 1692
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company; Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780316200608
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The diseases of astonishment; title: That old deluder; title: The working of wonders; title: One of you is a devil; title: The wizard; title: A suburb of hell; title: Now they say there is above seven hundred in all; title: In these hellish meetings; title: Our case is extraordinary; title: Published to prevent false reports; title: That dark and mysterious season; title: A long train of miserable consequences