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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GenreHistory
Length31 hrs 56 mins
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Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Salem Witchcraft (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2PREFACE
3MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
4INDEX TO THE MAP
5TOWN OF SALEM
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6GRANTS
7FARMS
8INTRODUCTION
9SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 1)
10SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 2)
11SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 3)
12SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 4)
13WITCHCRAFT (pt. 1)
14WITCHCRAFT (pt. 2)
15WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 1)
16WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 2)
17WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 3)
18WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 4)
19WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 5)
20WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE (pt. 6)
21SUPPLEMENT (pt. 1)
22SUPPLEMENT (pt. 2)
23APPENDIX
24PREFATORY ADDRESS
25DEODAT LAWSON'S NARRATIVE
26LETTER FROM R.P. TO JONATHAN CORWIN
27EXTRACTS FROM MR. PARRIS'S CHURCH RECORDS
28Memorable Quotes
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