In the Devil's Snare The Salem Witchcraft Crisis Of 1692

Name: In the Devil's Snare The Salem Witchcraft Crisis Of 1692
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ISBN: 9780375706905

ISBN-10: 0375706909

ISBN-13: 9780375706905

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mary Beth Norton

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Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers of witches—had fled to communities like Salem. Meanwhile the colony’s leaders, defensive about their own failure to protect the frontier, pondered how God’s people could be suffering at the hands of savages. Struck by the similarities between what the refugees had witnessed and what the…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.19" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English