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The Salem Witch Trials Reader by Frances Hill is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Salem Witch Trials Reader about?
Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In <i>The Salem Witch Trials Reader</i>, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon
Who reads The Salem Witch Trials Reader?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Frances Hill
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780306809460
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Psychology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.57 / 5 (151 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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