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Frances Hill offers a fact‑based account of the Salem witch trials, detailing the period from 1691 to 1693 when more than a hundred men, women and children were accused, imprisoned, and many executed. She analyzes the social conditions and psychological dynamics that produced this mass hysteria, drawing on modern psychology and feminist theory to explain how ordinary people—particularly teenagers—became complicit in a brutal and irrational persecution. Hill links the events to later "witch‑hunt" phenomena, from McCarthyism to contemporary accusations of child abuse, illuminating the enduring relevance of this tragic chapter in American history.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Frances Hill
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