The Salem Witch Trials was an excruciatingly violent and depressing time in American history, led by the reactions of a group of girls. Fourty - Fifty thousand people were killed, in all the world, over the course of 300 years because of the thought of them being a witch and worshipping the devil, many before The Salem Witch Trial began. Witchcraft was considered treason, a capital offence, and punishable by death. The Witch Trials were very misogynistic because it was believed that the common house wife had too much time on her hands which would lead her to do things like witchcraft. This is women were most of the victims of The Witch Trials. A group of protestants called the Puritans constantly sought to kill and purge everything that in their mind was evil. This led to the unprecedented Salem Witch Trials in the town of Salem, Massachusetts.
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The Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 by the strange and aberrant behavior of a group of young girls. The residents of Salem saw this behavior and questioned the girls. The girls then confessed that a Caribbean slave by the name of Tituba had been showing them witchcraft. Tituba was put on trial for the accusation of being a witch and she confessed, telling them that she was a witch and not the only one. She told the people of Salem that 9 other people had signed the Devil’s book and become a witch. Soon after Tituba’s claim people, mostly the group of girls, started to make accusations. Accusations of their neighbors and friends, and later in the trial, their family and loved-ones. Many people of the lower class were accused, thought to be less pure than the other. People that didn’t go to church or were thought of as strange or unordinary were also accused very
The Salem Witch Trials started in 1692 by the strange and aberrant behavior of a group of young girls. The residents of Salem saw this behavior and questioned the girls. The girls then confessed that a Caribbean slave by the name of Tituba had been showing them witchcraft. Tituba was put on trial for the accusation of being a witch and she confessed, telling them that she was a witch and not the only one. She told the people of Salem that 9 other people had signed the Devil’s book and become a witch. Soon after Tituba’s claim people, mostly the group of girls, started to make accusations. Accusations of their neighbors and friends, and later in the trial, their family and loved-ones. Many people of the lower class were accused, thought to be less pure than the other. People that didn’t go to church or were thought of as strange or unordinary were also accused very