Chapter 3: Empires
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Painting, "Examination of a Witch"Click the thumbnail to view full-size image- Painting, "Examination of a Witch" Worksheet
In this nineteenth century painting that revisited the Salem trials, an accused person is physically examined for evidence – any growths that might be “tits” for suckling demons. In what way were the trials "scientific" in their approach to the accusations?
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Repentance of Samuel SewallClick the thumbnail to view full-size image- Repentance of Samuel Sewall Worksheet
- Petition Put Up by Mr. Sewall on the Fast DaySamuel Sewall, a judge in the witchcraft proceedings, apologized several years after the trials in the following petition. A mural in the Massachusetts Statehouse provides an illustration of this occasion.
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The Hanging of Bridget Bishop and the Deposition of Ann PutnamClick the thumbnail to view full-size image- The Hanging of Bridget Bishop and the Deposition of Ann Putnam Worksheet
Many of those accused in Salem were woman on the margins of society, and at the beginning, the accusers were young girls. Those found guilty of witchcraft were hanged; Bridget Bishop’s final punishment is depicted in this illustration. Bishop was the first of nineteen to be executed. Even so, some men were accused as well; Ann Putnam, one of the accusers, aimed at John Willard in the deposition included among these documents. What aspects of the lives of young women in Puritan society might have led them to be the first accusers?
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