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03137aam a2200433 a 4500 001 2E30D42CCBD011EEA85EE9E240ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240215010052 008 110902s2009 mdu b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2009936629 020 $a 1595943226 020 $a 9781595943224 035 $a (OCoLC)748820735 040 $a MRH $b eng $c MRH $d YDXCP $d BKX $d XBM $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ma 050 4 $a BF1576 $b .C665 2009 082 04 $a 133.4/3097445 $2 22 100 1 $a Cooke, William H. 245 10 $a Justice at Salem : $b reexaming the Witch trials / $c William H. Cooke. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a Baltimore, MD : $b Undertaker Press, $c ©2009. 300 $a xxii, 139 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-139). 520 $a For too long the accepted view of the Salem witch trials has been that the events were caused either by fraud and/or hysteria and that no witchcraft was practiced by the accused. The religious leaders of the day stirred up zealotry and the justice system was either too corrupt or blind to properly administer justice. As a result, all of the convictions were a grave miscarriage of justice. However, there was actual witchcraft practiced in colonial New England and it is likely, although impossible to say with certainty, that its effects were more than merely psychological. And while miscarriages of justice were carried out, especially when the judges abandoned traditional legal protections in order to satisfy the wishes of the masses, guilty people were still among the condemned. As for the religious leaders, for the most part they generally advocated caution in the prosecution of suspected witches. Much of what people know, or think that they know, about the events at Salem in 1692 is wrong. Self-styled experts often make mistakes about many of the basic facts and draw conclusions that are not justified. The witch trials may hold a special place in the imaginations of many people, however, often imagination warps judgment, understanding, and memory. Justice at Salem attempts to set the historical record straight and using the evidence available draws new conclusions about what happened that fateful year in Massachusetts. 650 0 $a Witchcraft $z Salem $z Salem $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a Salem (Mass.) $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Trials (Witchcraft) $z Salem. $z Salem. 650 6 $a Sorcellerie $z Salem $z Salem $x Histoire $y 17e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a ProceÌs (Sorcellerie) $z Salem. $z Salem. 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Trials (Witchcraft) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156425 650 7 $a Witchcraft. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176327 651 7 $a Massachusetts $z Salem. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205839 $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfmqdw66DCcwmQ9mWM9Dq 648 7 $a 1600-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215013714.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2E30D42CCBD011EEA85EE9E240ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWSInitiate Another SILO Locator Search