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Decades after witch-hunting had<.
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And this is their story.
The Salem Witch Hunt and Trials killed many and ruined the lives of countless others.
We will walk through this History in the footprints of those who suffered the hardest in it.
We feel our own breaths catching as we watch the cruel and greedy Sheriff George Corwin piling rocks onto the fragile eighty-year-old body of Giles Corey, who is determined to die without entering a plea so that his sons will still get the inheritance he promised them.
We witness George Burroughs at the gallows, a former minister now condemned to die for his supposed alliance with Satan, as he delivers a speech so stirring that it takes quick thinking from his enemies to prevent the crowd from rushing forth to cut him down.
We stand at the bar with Rebecca Nurse, a sweet little old lady who is sentenced to hang for what she must have perceived to be the most heinous of crimes.
In this book, we will walk side by side with the destitute Sarah Good as she realizes that after having lost all she owns, her reputation, her baby, and even her life will still be taken from her.
It is an attempt to bring to life the victims who died so unjustly.
This is not an attempt to explain the events of 1692.
This is the story of its people.
This is not the story of the trials.
It would be only 72 years after the arrival of the Mayflower that the events in Salem would make it blatantly obvious that humanity had already blown it again.
They saw the New World as a new beginning, a kind of second chance for humanity.
Persecuted for their faith in Europe, the Puritans had pictured a kind of utopia founded on biblical principles.
Populated by colonists, many of them a generation or less from life in an England bathed in religious turmoil, Massachusetts was not the safe haven that the fleeing Puritans had hoped it would be.
The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today.
Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest Witch Hunt in history.
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