The Salem Witch Trials were hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft between the dates of February 1692 and 1693. However, the trials were sexist, in that being that women were the main targets of witchcraft. The woman were treated in an barbaric, callous manner. These fiendish acts were of cruelty and savagery. The judges accused the women of being witches by using insufficient evidence from only one source; the sayings of the slave Tituba. Such evidence is unwarrantable and inaccurate.
In Tituba’s defense, she was compelled to make the erroneous accusations from the diabolical, monstrous, Rev. Samuel Parris, the local minister. As one reads the document, he/ she can infer that Parris must have had a central …show more content…
They used chronological order to rearrange nearly 1,000 documents from that period. Thus, using sufficient evidence ranging from reviewing various sermons, journals, and court records. Everywhere the scholars looked, they noticed the fingerprints of both Parris and his ally, Thomas Putnam, a wealthy landowner and church member.
Historians have concluded that Parris was a troubled man and has been a failure since the beginning. At the age of 36, he was a drop-out from the prestigious university, Harvard. To make matters even worse, he was at a lack of success when it came to farming and business enterprises. Desperate for an accomplishment, Parris knew that he can’t possibly fail at this task.
Trouble began in Parris family when his niece and daughter started acting in an eerie, bizarre manner. They blamed two women for the strange way they were acting. Parris seeing this as a way to redeem himself, tells Tituba, his slave to confess before the magistrates. Once she confesses, the hunt for witches escalates. Parris let the accusations and trial to continue, along with the help of the malevolent Putnam who continually revised court records to make the accused seem guilty.
In Tituba’s defense, she was compelled to make the erroneous accusations from the diabolical, monstrous, Rev. Samuel Parris, the local minister. As one reads the document, he/ she can infer that Parris must have had a central …show more content…
They used chronological order to rearrange nearly 1,000 documents from that period. Thus, using sufficient evidence ranging from reviewing various sermons, journals, and court records. Everywhere the scholars looked, they noticed the fingerprints of both Parris and his ally, Thomas Putnam, a wealthy landowner and church member.
Historians have concluded that Parris was a troubled man and has been a failure since the beginning. At the age of 36, he was a drop-out from the prestigious university, Harvard. To make matters even worse, he was at a lack of success when it came to farming and business enterprises. Desperate for an accomplishment, Parris knew that he can’t possibly fail at this task.
Trouble began in Parris family when his niece and daughter started acting in an eerie, bizarre manner. They blamed two women for the strange way they were acting. Parris seeing this as a way to redeem himself, tells Tituba, his slave to confess before the magistrates. Once she confesses, the hunt for witches escalates. Parris let the accusations and trial to continue, along with the help of the malevolent Putnam who continually revised court records to make the accused seem guilty.