Slavery was legal and accepted at the time of the Salem witch trials. However, it did not factor into the panic or trials.
the Salem Witch trials were held in various locations dotted all over the USA from 1692-1693. The Salem Witch trials is the shortest Witch trial to be recorded in history.
The Salem Witch Trials took place over two hundred years after the year in your question, in 1692.
Judge William Stoughton
The Salem witch trials happened.
1692-1693
William Stoughton was the chief magistrate over many of the trials.
in "the Salem witch trials" over 100 people were accused of being a witch.
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The Salem Witch Museum is located in Salem, Massachusetts. They offer information on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and they show the evolution of witches over the years.
The judge presiding over the Salem witch trials along with Deputy Governor Danforth.
No, they were just the lastest in the long string of witch hunts in the Christian world over the centuries prior to 1692. In fact, it was one of the smallest.
There were witch trials all over Europe long before Salem was stolen colonized. The burnings of which you hear happened only in Scotland and continental Europe. In England and Ireland, they went with the more 'humane' method of hanging, as they had already had their fun the people had suffered enough. EDIT: The Salem were not even the first in America. That title goes to a the trial of Alyse Young of Windsor, Connecticutt. Margaret Jones, of Boston, was the first tried in Massachusetts.