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Satan and Salem - The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 (Paperback)
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Satan and Salem - The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 (Paperback)
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The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great
moral catastrophe, the Salem witch trials of 1692 took a
breathtaking toll on the young English colony of Massachusetts.
Over 150 people were imprisoned, and nineteen men and women,
including a minister, were executed by hanging. The colonial
government, which was responsible for initiating the trials,
eventually repudiated the entire affair as a great ""delusion of
the Devil."" In Satan and Salem, Benjamin Ray looks beyond
single-factor interpretations to offer a far more nuanced view of
why the Salem witch-hunt spiraled out of control. Rather than
assigning blame to a single perpetrator, Ray assembles portraits of
several major characters, each of whom had complex motives for
accusing his or her neighbors. In this way, he reveals how
religious, social, political, and legal factors all played a role
in the drama. Ray's historical database of court records,
documents, and maps yields a unique analysis of the geographic
spread of accusations and trials, ultimately showing how the
witch-hunt resulted in the execution of so many people - far more
than any comparable episode on this side of the Atlantic.
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