Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

by Marilynne K. Roach

Book Overview

The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women

Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted," 32 had officially accused their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306821206
• ISBN13: 9780306821202
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"