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The Salem Witch Trials Reader stalking jack the ripperAgainst the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances

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The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave

she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented

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Savage recounts the many times collective insanity has gripped the American public - often prompted by sinister politicians with ulterior motives

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