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  • Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

    by Carson O. Hudson ...
    The Emmy Award–winning screenwriter "examines spine-tingling tales in chapters called 'The Beliefs,' 'The Law,' 'The Experts' and 'The Witches'" ( Bristol Herald Courier).While the Salem witch trials get the most notoriety, Virginia's witchcraft history dates back many years before that . . .Colonial Virginians shared a common belief in the supernatural with their northern neighbors. While the ... Read more

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  • Hidden History of Civil War Williamsburg

    by Carson O. Hudson Jr. ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Each year, thousands of visitors visit Colonial Williamsburg to learn about the past and walk where the Founding Fathers walked.The fact that the same ground was later soaked with the tears and blood of their children and grandchildren during our tragic Civil War is frequently forgotten. In this expanded and revised version of Yankees in the Streets: Forgotten People and Stories of Civil War ... Read more

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  • In the Devil's Snare

    The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

    by Mary Beth Norton ...
    Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had all but emptied the northern frontier of settlers, and many traumatized refugees—including the main accusers ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Demonology of King James I

    Includes the Original Text of Daemonologie and News from Scotland

    by Donald Tyson ...
    Written by King James I and published in 1597, the original edition of Demonology is widely regarded as one of the most interesting and controversial religious writings in history, yet because it is written in the language of its day, it has been notoriously difficult to understand.Now occult scholar Donald Tyson has modernized and annotated the original text, making this historically important ... Read more

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  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

    Witchcraft in Colonial New England

    by Carol F. Karlsen ...
    "A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale UniversityConfessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange ... Read more

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  • Complete Writings

    by Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta ...
    The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a formerly enslaved woman turned published poetIn 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a ship of enslaved people, was sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public ... Read more

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  • Salem Witch Trials Reader

    by Frances Hill ...
    Against 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 ... Read more

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  • Between Two Worlds

    How the English Became Americans

    by Malcolm Gaskill ...
    In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill ... Read more

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  • Connecticut Witch Trials

    The First Panic in the New World

    by Cynthia Wolfe Boynton ...
    The little-known story of the first witch hunt in New England—nearly half a century before Salem.Connecticut's witch hunt was the first and most ferocious in New England, occurring almost fifty years before the infamous Salem witch trials. Between 1647 and 1697, at least thirty-four men and women from across the state were formally charged with witchcraft. Eleven were hanged.In New Haven, William ... Read more

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  • The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Record of a Trial for a Case of Murder, Committed by Two Slaves

    by Abner Cheney Goodell, Winter Fernwick ...
    The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman is a compact but revealing documentary study of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts criminal case: the poisoning of Captain Codman and the prosecution of enslaved people under the archaic doctrine of "petit treason." Written in an antiquarian-legal style, the work reconstructs indictments, proceedings, ... Read more

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  • Witchcraft: The Basics

    by Marion Gibson ...
    Series series The Basics
    Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use of two case studies, this book delves into the emergence of the witch as a harmful figure within western thought and traces the representation of ... Read more

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  • Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores

    Common Law and Common Folk in Early America

    by Elaine Forman Crane ...
    The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD