Mather-Cheever Account of the Salem Witch Trials by Cotton, Cheever, Ezekiel, and Sewall, Samuel Mather
Mather-Cheever Account of the Salem Witch Trials
Reprinted in Eyewitness to America
Published in...
Read more
Witch-Hunts in Puritan New England
The witch trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 and 1693 are remembered today as a tragic chapter in American history. The trials are generally con...
Read more
Salem Witch Trials and Executions
The pre-trial hearings in the cases of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba set the stage for the social strife that would soon rip Salem apart. (See Chapter 3 for i...
Read more
Aftermath of the Salem Trials
After the prisoners awaiting trial on charges of practicing witchcraft were granted amnesty (pardoned) in 1693, the accusers and judges showed hardly any remorse for exec...
Read more
The Salem Trials: Interrogation of Susannah Martin by Cotton and Cheever, Ezekiel Mather
The Salem Trials: Interrogation of Susannah Martin
Reprinted in Eyewitness to America in 1997
Cotton Mather, a ...
Read more
Bishop, Bridget
Born: c. 1640
England
Died: June 10, 1692
Salem, Massachusetts
Tavern owner and accused witch
Bridget Bishop was the first person to be put to death during the Salem witch trials of 16...
Read more
Bridget Bishop (died 1692) was a tavern keeper whose wild temperament and flamboyant dress enventually caused her to be tried and hanged for witchcraft.The seventeenth century was a time of great reli...
Read more
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 signify a part of New England history that is unique within the entire history of the United States of America. In today's society, witchcraft is not an accepted form of...
Read more
Act 1 end
Prior to the event before this diary entry, John Proctor came to Reverend Parris's home. Proctor engaged with Abigail who has romantic feelings for Proctor, trying to avoid being a...
Read more
Witches in Salem, Massachusetts were victimized by the communities, tortured, and often killed. These women were mainly scapegoats of other problems, or else the accuser had something to gain, often ...
Read more
The Salem Witch Trials
Those who confessed to be witches would be forgiven and those who did not faced death (Knapp 1). What if those who claimed to be to be innocent were really innocent? Twenty...
Read more
The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 were the largest outbreak of witch hunting in colonial New England up to that time. Although it was the largest outbreak, it was not something that was new. Witc...
Read more
The Salem witch trials were trials that had young women accused of being witches. During this era young women would be drowned, hanged and thrown off cliffs. The thought of confessing of being a wi...
Read more
During the Salem witch trials many innocent lives were taken because of the lies of others.In Stephen Benet's "We aren't Supertitious" he describes the events of the salem withc trials.The exciteme...
Read more
Witchcraft is rarely talked about in our society today. In Early America, witchcraft was rarely talked about. Many people in history believed that there was evil within a person. In Stephen Vincent Be...
Read more
Salem Village
Witches. Witches are what people think about when they hear the words "Salem Village." But there is more to Salem than just the witchcraft trials. The people themselves had their o...
Read more
In New England Puritan ideas of gender dictated acts of gender for women in terms of behavior, demeanor, and speech at home and church, in public and private. Gender roles were clearly defined and c...
Read more
There are three parallels among the Salem witch trials, the Red Scare of the 1950's, and Racial Profiling after 9/11: false accusations motivated by unrelated personal interest, public fear of somethi...
Read more
The Salem Witch Trials
In 1692, within a small Puritan village, tragedy struck. This tragedy later became known as the Salem Witch Trials. Society has a tendency of viewing the people of Salem as ig...
Read more
In around 1692, suspicions began to arise about some devilish works of the people in Salem village. Tituba, the Barbadian slave of minister Reverend Samuel Parris, began meeting in the Parris home wi...
Read more
Mather-Cheever Account of the Salem Witch Trials by Cotton, Cheever, Ezekiel, and Sewall, Samuel Mather
Witch-Hunts in Puritan New England
Bridget Bishop
