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What happened in Salem?

Title
What happened in Salem? / David Levin.
Author
Levin, David, 1924-1998
Publication
New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1960], ©1960.

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Description
238 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Harbrace sourcebooks
Uniform Title
Harbrace sourcebooks.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Documents pertaining to the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials.
  • "The introduction and parts I and II ... were first published at Harvard in the sixth edition, 1950, of the Handbook for English A."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).
Contents
Trial evidence. Sarah Good ; Bridget Bishop ; Susanna Martin ; John Proctor ; George Burroughs -- Contemporary comment. A brief and true narrative ... / Deodat Lawson ; Excerpts from the diary of Samuel Sewall ; Letters of Governor Phips ; Confession of William Barker ; A discourse on witchcraft / Cotton Mather ; Letter to John Richards / Cotton Mather ; The return of several ministers consulted / Cotton Mather ; From The wonders of the invisible world / Cotton Mather ; Cases of conscience concerning evil spirits personating men / Increase Mather ; Letter of Thomas Brattle -- Legal redress. Reversal of attainder, October 17, 1711 ; Resolve of the Massachusetts General Court, August 28, 1957 -- Historical fiction. Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; A mirror for witches / Esther Forbes.
LCCN
60008494
OCLC
  • ocm00223084
  • 223084
  • SCSB-2345896
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries