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Salem witch trials book provides historical perspective in updated language
2000
Overview
[Frances Hill] writes that the trials were a turning point in U.S. history, making a \"transition from Puritanism, with its values of community, simplicity and piety, to the new Yankee world of individualism, urbanity and freedom of conscience.\" The trials, which spread to communities all over New England, did not happen in a vacuum, Hill said. Settlers brought with them the beliefs of old Europe, where people had been accused of being witches for centuries. Those supernatural beliefs were personified by the constant threat of aboriginals, who were thought of as devils. 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.
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Postmedia Network Inc
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