Salem Witchcraft (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

Salem Witchcraft (Complete Edition) is Charles Wentworth Upham's monumental reconstruction of the 1692 Salem trials, a work that combines narrative history, legal documentation, biography, and moral inquiry. Written in the expansive nineteenth-century antiquarian style, it situates the outbreak of accusations within Puritan theology, village factionalism, colonial law, and the psychology of fear. ...