The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America by Gretchen A. Adams

The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

Gretchen A. Adams

223 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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In The Specter of Salem, Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to d...

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