The Salem Witch Hysteria

For being much(prenominal) a geographically secondary city, capital of Oregon, Massachusetts continues to carry a big name altogether for the outlets that took place between February of 1692 and touch of 1693. When one hears the word capital of Oregon, it is more(prenominal) than likely that this person go away think of words such(prenominal) as witchcraft, hanging and hysteria. galore(postnominal) are shocked and outrage by the seeming everlasting(a) lack of justice and saneness that occurred during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, when xix individuals were put to their death for crimes they did non commit. Numerous books, articles, and films have desire to restate the tragic events that happened that year, just rarely has anyone feated to condone why exactly they happened. excite by an assignment at the University of Massachusetts to retell an event in history utilise only primary sources, capital of Minnesota Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum teamed up to write Salem have in an attempt to shed new light on the notorious Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in such a way that has neer been done before. \nBoyer and Nissenbaums purpose in creating their narrative was to inform the national that the witch trials of the 1600s were not completely random acts of absolutism and hatred, but were entirely turn over ideas that built up over time, fueled by genuine problematic social issues and a populations jaundice of change. The authors, frustrated by the idealisation and misconstruction of the trials by other authors, took an entirely different appeal to examining the trials by focusing but on primary sources \nof the boundary such as: appraise assessments, lists of government officials, community votes, and perform documents. Shockingly, none of these records had ever been exhaustively examined before Salem Possessed was written. Previous to the discovery of these sources, the period of knowledge possessed more or less Salem was that it was a teensy-weensy farming village where tether girls named Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, and Ann Putnam began di...