Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Enslow Publishing, LLC, 2015
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780766063440 MWT15612005, 0766063445 15612005
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Salem witchcraft trials occurred during a controversial period in colonial America in which mass hysteria led to a series of outrageous trials resulting in the conviction and execution of twenty people for practicing witchcraft, and the imprisonment of one hundred fifty other accused witches. Highlighting key people and events, Fremon explains the unique circumstances that existed in colonial Massachusetts and Salem Village at the time of the trials as he considers many possible reasons why the witchcraft trials were held
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