Host Rich Fahle talks with Stacy Schiff about her book, “The Witches: Salem, 1692” at the 2015 Miami Book Fair. FROM THE PUBLISHER: It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when […]
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