Isbn A Storm of Witchcraft ( The Salem Trials and the American Experience ) book English Hardcover 416 pages

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ISBN A Storm of Witchcraft ( The Salem Trials and the American Experience ). Book cover type: Hardcover, Language version: English, Written by: Emerson W. Baker

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Beginning in January 1692 Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagersâ€”mainly young womenâ€”suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe shriek and contort their bodies complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work. The resulting Salem Witch Trials culminating in the execution of 19 villagers persists as one of the most mysterious and fascinating events in American history. Historians have speculated on a web of possible causes for the witchcraft that stated in Salem and spread across the region-religious crisis ergot poisoning an encephalitis outbreak frontier war hysteriaâ€”but most agree that there was no single factor. Rather as Emerson Baker illustrates in this seminal new work Salem was a perfect storm: a unique convergence of conditions and events that produced something extraordinary throughout New England in 1692 and the following years and which has haunted us ever since. Baker shows how a range of factors in the Bay colony in the 1690s including a new charter and government a lethal frontier war and religious and political conflicts set the stage for the dramatic events in Salem. Engaging a range of perspectives he looks at the key players in the outbreakâ€”the accused witches and the people they allegedly bewitched as well as the judges and government officials who prosecuted themâ€”and wrestles with questions about why the Salem tragedy unfolded as it did and why it has become an enduring legacy. Salem in 1692 was a critical moment for the fading Puritan government of Massachusetts Bay whose attempts to suppress the story of the trials and erase them from memory only fueled the popular imagination. Baker argues that the trials marked a turning point in colonial history from Puritan communalism to Yankee independence from faith in collective conscience to skepticism toward moral governance. A brilliantly told tale A Storm of Witchcraft also puts Salem's storm into its broader context as a part of the ongoing narrative of American history and the history of the Atlantic World.

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