Salem Witchcraft (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Including the History of the Conflicting Opinions on Witchcraft and MagicBy Charles Wentworth Upham
Length31h 56m
About this audiobook
In Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II, Charles Wentworth Upham offers one of the earliest exhaustive narrative histories of the 1692 Salem trials, combining archival documentation, local genealogy, courtroom testimony, and moral reflection. Written in a sober nineteenth-century historical prose, the work situates the outbreak within Puritan theology, village factionalism, colonial insecurity, and the legal culture of New England. Its style is meticulous and expansive, often moving from documentary reconstruction to ethical judgment, making it a landmark in the literary and historiographical tradition of American colonial history. Upham, a Massachusetts clergyman, politician, and antiquarian, was deeply rooted in the region whose tragedy he chronicled. Born in 1802 and long associated with Salem, he brought to the subject both local knowledge and a reform-minded Unitarian sensibility suspicious of fanaticism and inherited superstition. His access to records, landscapes, and family histories helped shape a work attentive to place, character, and civic memory. This book is recommended for readers seeking more than a sensational account of witchcraft. It is essential for students of early America, religious history, legal culture, and collective fear, and remains a foundational, if period-marked, study of Salem's enduring significance.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length31 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Salem Witchcraft (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
15WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 1)
2PREFACE
16WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 2)
3MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
17WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 3)
4INDEX TO THE MAP
18WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 4)
5TOWN OF SALEM
19WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 5)
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6GRANTS
20WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 6)
7FARMS
21SUPPLEMENT (pt. 1)
8INTRODUCTION
22SUPPLEMENT (pt. 2)
9SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 1)
23APPENDIX
10SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 2)
24PREFATORY ADDRESS
11SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 3)
25DEODAT LAWSON'S NARRATIVE
12SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 4)
26LETTER FROM R.P. TO JONATHAN CORWIN
13WITCHCRAFT (pt. 1)
27EXTRACTS FROM MR. PARRIS'S CHURCH RECORDS
14WITCHCRAFT (pt. 2)
28Memorable Quotes
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