(DOWNLOAD) "Salem Witch Trials" by Martin Van Buren Perley ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Salem Witch Trials
- Author : Martin Van Buren Perley
- Release Date : January 24, 2017
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,History,United States,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1890 KB
Description
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in 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 one of the Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. It has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process. It was not unique, but a Colonial American example of the much broader phenomenon of witch trials in the early modern period, which took place also in Europe. Many historians consider the lasting effects of the trials to have been highly influential in subsequent United States history. According to historian George Lincoln Burr, "the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered."
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