Salem Witch Trials

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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and Might 1693. The trials resulted within the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women, and all but one by hanging. Five others (including two infant children) died in prison.

The episode is among the Colonial The us’s most notorious cases of mass hysteria. It has been utilized in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale in regards to the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process. It used to be not unique, but a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials within the early brand new period, which took place also in Europe. Many historians imagine the lasting effects of the trials to have been highly influential in subsequent United States history. In line with historian George Lincoln Burr, “the Salem witchcraft used to be the rock on which the theocracy shattered.”

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