Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New EnglandPaul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum UPNE, 24. sept 1993 - 416 pages Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume draws exclusively on primary documents to reveal the underlying conflicts and tensions that caused that small, agricultural settlement to explode with such dramatic force. |
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Contents
The Trials Records of Five Witchcraft Cases | 1 |
Extracts From Deodat Lawson A Brief and True | 111 |
Comment by Outside Authorities Civil | 117 |
Witchcraft | 124 |
Samuel Parris These Shall Make | 132 |
Sarah Good | 139 |
Rebecca Nurse | 148 |
Bridget Bishop | 155 |
The Wilkins Family | 199 |
The Village Forms | 229 |
The Village Defines Itself | 235 |
The SalemVillage Book | 313 |
Salem Village Becomes a Town 1752 | 373 |
Selected List of Accusers and Persons Against Whom They | 379 |
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Additional Genealogies of Some SalemVillage Families | 415 |
Common terms and phrases
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