| Description |
1 image file : digital, JPEG. |
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The Salem Witch Trials anthology |
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The Salem Witch Trials anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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| Note |
Original document: Etching. |
| Summary |
Martha Corey was accused and executed for practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. John Ehninger illustrates her here in the courtroom as she nears her execution. Ehninger's etching provides context for 17th-century American courtrooms similar to those printed or described elsewhere. In the decades and centuries following the Trials, people began calling the whole incident the "Salem Witch Delusion." Those executed during the Trials were thought to be victims of an excitable, superstitious society. In this etching, produced a little more than 200 years following the Trials, the viewer can clearly sense Corey's innocence. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Added Author |
Ehninger, John, engraver.
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