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The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America /

Adams, Gretchen A.

The specter of Salem : remembering the witch trials in nineteenth-century America / Gretchen A. Adams. - xiii, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Mysteries, memories, and metaphors: from event to memory -- Memory and nation: the early republic -- Not to hell but to Salem: antebellum religious crises -- Witch-burners: the politics of sectionalism -- Witch-hunters: the era of Civil War and Reconstruction -- Epilogue: The crucible of memory.

9780226005430 (pbk.) 0226005437 (pbk.) 0226005429 (ebook) 9780226005423 (ebook)


Witchcraft--History--Massachusetts--Salem--19th century.
Trials (Witchcraft)--History--Massachusetts--Salem--19th century.


Salem (Mass.)--Social conditions.

BF1576 / .A33 2010

133.43097445

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