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Death in Salem, the private lives behind the 1692 witch hunt, Diane E. Foulds

Label
Death in Salem, the private lives behind the 1692 witch hunt, Diane E. Foulds
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Death in Salem
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
435418932
Responsibility statement
Diane E. Foulds
Sub title
the private lives behind the 1692 witch hunt
Table Of Contents
Preface : a cauldron of discontent : the pressures that drove a tranquil village to combustion -- The accusers : Elizabeth Booth, Richard Carrier, Sarah Churchill, Elizabeth Hubbard, John Indian, Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Parris, Ann Putnam Jr., Margaret Rule, Susannah Sheldon, Mercy Short, Martha Sprague, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren, Mary Watkins, and Abigail Williams -- The victims : Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Lydia Dustin, Mary Easty, Ann Foster, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, George Jacobs Jr., Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Osborne, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Reed, Margaret Scott, Roger Toothaker, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Willard -- The clergy : Thomas Barnard, Francis Dane, John Hale, John Higginson, Deodat Lawson, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Joshua Moody, Nicholas Noyes, Samuel Parris, and Samuel Willard -- The judges : Jonathan Corwin, Bartholomew Gedney, John Hathorne, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Peter Sargeant, Samuel Sewall, William Stoughton, and Wait Still Winthrop -- The elite : Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Brattle, Robert Calef, Thomas Danforth, Philip English, Sir William Phips, and Britain's King William III and Queen Mary -- Conclusion : did seventeenth-century living conditions predispose English settlers to witch hunts?
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