Description
Through its extensive use of primary source materials and provision of crucial accompanying explanations, this book places readers into the context of late 17th-century Salem society to make clear some of the darkest events in American history―the Salem witch trials.
• Examines the individual cases of among the sufferers of the more than year-long Salem witch trials episode
• Clarifies the historical context of the belief systems and culture of 17th-century Massachusetts to enable up to date readers to take hold of how such an out of this world series of events could have happened in that specific era
• Introduces recent audiences to the meaning of the archaic language and ideas of the late 1600s as used in the main documents