Six Women of Salem
The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
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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 20 who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted", 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton Mather called "a desolation of names".
The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And although the flood of names and detail in the history of an extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be remembered, and, in remembering specific lives, modern audiences can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows listeners what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged.
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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate 16th-century villagers.
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- By metAlApollo on 12-04-24
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Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be heard across the city. With this terrifying scene - one that would haunt this family forever - David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping.
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By: David I. Kertzer
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A Storm of Witchcraft
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By: Emerson W. Baker
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God's Traitors
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For many Catholics, the Elizabethan "Golden Age" was an alien concept. Following the criminalization of their religion by Elizabeth I, nearly 200 Catholics were executed, and many more wasted away in prison during her reign. Torture was used more than at any other time in England's history. While some bowed to the pressure of the government and new church, publicly conforming to acts of Protestant worship, others did not - and quickly found themselves living in a state of siege.
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Drawing on the diaries of one woman in 18th-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.
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drew me in
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Did She or Didn't She
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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial an extraordinary four times in order to get a conviction, to the horror of many in the legal community. Louisa protested her innocence until the end.
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Butcher's Work
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A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-14th-century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived - and died - during the Black Death (A.D. 1345-50), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and describes in fascinating detail the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague.
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Too Dry for a "Fiction"
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It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
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Only so so
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- Elizabeth Pamela
- 01-07-24
history in story
really enjoyed listening and hearing the perspectives of those on trial. like you were there.
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- Sparky Dew
- 12-17-23
Well delivered- excellent content
The story of the Salem witch trials is a story of human frailty- the desire to side with the emotional over rational. Excellent book - superb narrative. Well worth the time.
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- Ilyana L.
- 10-20-20
Great mix of historical accounts and fiction
My one hang up with this book is that the narrator is probably THE SLOWEST READER EVER! You have to amp it up to at least 1.3x speed. She’s a little bland as well. But aside from that if you’re interested in history this is an infesting read.
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- TR
- 10-23-24
Very thorough
Detailed intricate study of the Salem witch trials. A sad historical event that seems unbelievable.
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- Ketala
- 11-11-17
Excellent
Excellent and thoroughly researched account of the 1692 trials and aftermath. Fictional sections provide drama and supposition but mostly seem factual/possible.
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- Larry and Cindi
- 02-27-21
Well researched
Narration was very well performed. Likely would not be as interesting to readers who are new to the Salem witches story.
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- L. Cullen
- 12-17-20
There is a LOT of conjecture in this book
Granted, the author mentions when she is engaging in conjecture, but she does an awful lot of it. It disappointed me because I was expecting a straight history, but there is a lot of "perhaps," "maybe," "presumably," and "lost to history" in work. It's not a bad book, just not advertised as what it is.
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- Misstchristine
- 11-10-23
Brilliant Story
The way the author presents the historical material is incredible. Having just visited Salem for the first time a few weeks ago and I was disgusted by the shameless capitalistic approach the city embraces for tourists (which the author more eloquently mentions). Because of this, I felt it was important to find a book that tells the story in its entirety. The Six Women of Salem did not disappoint!
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- DangerousBlossom
- 12-15-18
Robotic Reader
Very factual & interesting, without a lot of political propaganda, (mild siding with American Indians over Whites in the war and needless mentioning that she is opposed to slavery -- of course! No need to emphasize that!) but marred by the Alexa-like reader. More feeling and a variety in tone is needed. She also reads V E R Y S L O W L Y. I dealt with this by increasing the playback speed.
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- Karbie
- 12-21-17
ancestors
I found this book very interesting since my ancestors are Sarah Good and George Herrick.
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