Schanzer, Rosalyn.

Summary: Recounts in electrifying detail the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts. After two girls exhibit strange behavior, the colonial town's doctor concludes their symptoms are the result of witchcraft. Even today, the chilling events of this period remain one of the most disturbing passages of U.S. history.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 133.4 SCH

Schanzer, Rosalyn.

Summary: Tells the story of the victims, the accused witches, and the scheming officials that turned a mysterious illness into a witch hunt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 SCH

Francis, Richard

Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRA

LaPlante, Eve

Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAP