Description: What Happened in Salem? By David LevinSecond Edition Condition: Very Good. Cover shows signs of age and some minor creases in the bottom right corner. Pages are clean and in good condition. Binding is solid. Between June 10th and September 22nd, 1692, nineteen Massachusetts men and women and two dogs were hanged for witchcraft, and one man was pressed to death for refusing to plead to the indictment. When the executions came to an end, fifty-five people had confessed that they were witches, and a hundred and fifty were in jail either waiting to be tried or enduring, as several convicted women did, reprieves granted to them so that infants they had already conceived would not be executed with them. It would be easy to dismiss this episode merely as a horrible example of "superstition," as a curious delusion of a curiously demented people; but no one can reach a reasonable judgement without taking history into account, and that means trying to understand the ideas an beliefs which to people of the time seemed to justify the executions.
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Book Title: What Happened In Salem
Signed: No
Book Series: N/A
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, And World Inc.
Intended Audience: Adults
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Edition: second edition
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1960
Type: Novel
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Author: David Levin
Features: Unabridged
Genre: History
Topic: American History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
