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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Marilynne Roach
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Description for Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Paperback. A narrative that allows readers to experience the history of the Salem witch trials through the eyes of those who lived it Num Pages: 472 pages, 16 pages black-&-white photos. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 594.
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbours, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the ... Read more
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbours, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306821202
SKU
V9780306821202
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About Marilynne Roach
Marilynne K. Roach earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and works as both a historian and illustrator. She has drawn illustrations and written how-to and travel articles for the Boston Globe, has lectured to groups ranging from kindergarten to senior citizens, and has written several scholarly articles on various aspects of the witch scare.She is a lifelong resident ... Read more
Reviews for Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
InfoDad Blog, 10/10/13 "Roach shows how thoroughly she has researched her subject...while also giving modern readers something to think about in our own days of social and political witch hunts. Six Women of Salem...will provide a greater sense of the real-world lives of those who engaged in and were victimized by those events." San Francisco Book Review/Sacramento Book Review, 10/7/13 ... Read more