Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England

Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume draws exclusively on primary documents to reveal the underlying conflicts and tensions that caused that small, agricultural settlement to explode with such dramatic force.

• Author
• Paul S. Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 416

• Publisher
• Northeastern University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781555531652

• Genres
• history, witches, anthologies, reference

• Release date
• 1993