Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
Benjamin C. Ray, "Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692"
English | ISBN: 0813937078 | 2015 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0813937078 | 2015 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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."
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