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Salem witch trials

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Fact: "They intended to build a society based on their religious beliefs."

MLA Citation: King, Ernest W., and Franklin G. Mixon. “Religiosity and the Political Economy of the Salem Witch Trials.” The Social Science Journal (Fort Collins), vol. 47, no. 3, Elsevier Inc, 2010, pp. 678–88, doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2010.01.008.

DOI:10.1016/j.soscij.2010.01.008

Quote: "Salem Village, both before and through the witchcraft trials, was a religion-based community, allowing its minister to exert a level of political–economic control over its citizens." Phase 3:

Dail, Chrystyna. “When for “Witches” We Read “Women”: Advocacy and Ageism in Nineteenth-Century Salem Witchcraft Plays.” Theatre History Studies, vol. 39, The University of Alabama Press, 2020, pp. 70–88. ISSN: 0733-2033.

Writer Chrystyna Dial’s piece is written on the bases of gender studies of how women were treated violently during colonial America. This abuse was inflicted from the church because they thought that women were the most sinful. Overall, these characters within the Witch Trials helped with women gaining rights and being more powerful in society.

Wilcox, Helen, et al. “Her Own Life.” Her Own Life, 1st ed., Routledge, 1989, doi:10.4324/9780203358962.

Within “Her Own Life” by Helen Wilcox, which is an autobiography, she describes autobiographies of women from the 1600s. These autobiographies are of women who lived in America and wrote about wanting to leave their abusive husbands and how horrible it was for them. These stories show the real horror of what women were going through during this time.

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Fact 1: Not only do the male residents of Salem in Mathews's play regularly beat elderly women for failing to kneel during prayer, but they also advocate punishing accused witches with a host of violent acts. Punishments for witches in Witchcraft: Or, the Martyrs of Salem include casting them in irons and hanging, burning, or pressing them to death. These actions reflect the socially acceptable treatment of crone or elderly witch characters as well as the othering of peri- and postmenopausal women in the play. Every woman accused or put to death for witchcraft in Witchcraft: Or, the Martyrs of Salem is over the age of forty. Mathews uses the words "aged" or "old" to describe women in the play twenty-eight times, whereas a man in the text is described as such only once. Not a single man in the play is accused of witchcraft, while we learn of the jailing of twenty women, the hanging of three, and the pressing to death of another female witch within the action.

Fact 1 Summary: Men periodically are shown to be beating women that are depicted during the time of the Salem Witch Trails which is how these women were really treated.

Fact 2: The emotions and incidents described in these anthologized texts, therefore—Hannah Allen’s despair after the death of her husband, Sarah Davy’s falling in love with another woman—are not wholly reducible to the framework that permitted their composition. This is particularly striking in the case of Anne Wentworth’s pamphlet, which uses the language of the conversion narrative—the requirement on her to ‘declare my experiences’—to write and publish a text recording her reasons for leaving her Baptist church and her husband.

Fact 2 Summary: Within the lives that are described in the Early America many women's husbands died, some fell in love with other women, and some left their husbands and their churches during this time.

Article Sections: An overwhelming majority of people accused and convicted of witchcraft were women (about 78%). Overall, the Puritan belief and prevailing New England culture was that women were inherently sinful and more susceptible to damnation than men were. Within the lives that are described in the Early America many women's husbands died, some fell in love with other women, and some left their husbands and their churches during this time. Throughout their daily lives, Puritans, especially Puritan women, actively attempted to thwart attempts by the Devil to overtake them and their souls. Indeed, Puritans held the belief that men and women were equal in the eyes of God, but not in the eyes of the Devil. Women's souls were seen as unprotected in their weak and vulnerable bodies. Several factors may explain why women were more likely to admit guilt of witchcraft than men. Historian Elizabeth Reis asserts that some likely believed they had truly given in to the Devil, and others might have believed they had done so temporarily. However, because those who confessed were reintegrated into society, some women might have confessed in order to spare their own lives. Men periodically are shown to be beating women that are depicted during the time of the Salem Witch Trails which is how these women were really treated.