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Author uses first-person accounts in book on 17th century witch trials
2000
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British author Frances Hill has written a book that provides a genuine historical perspective on the witch hunt by using first- person accounts from the infamous 17th century trials that led to 20 people being executed and hundreds of others sent to prison. Hill hopes the section of the book that examines the trials in popular culture will clarify myths, in particular, one that the [Samuel Parris] family's slave, Tituba, was black. The witchcraft scare began after Tituba told voodoo tales to young girls. The girls became excited and a physician said they were bewitched. Tituba was sentenced to death for witchcraft. Before the hysteria ended a year later, 19 people were hanged and one person pressed to death. Scholars have long known Tituba was aboriginal -- and considering the colonists' views of Indians, it was easy to make her a scapegoat, Hill says. \"The myth she was African was racist, and formed in the 19th and early 20th centuries,\" Hill said.
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