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Gretchen A. Adams
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“sworn testimony to her possession of puppets by witnesses in the Salem trials provided enough empirical evidence for any witchcraft charge.”
― The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
― The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
“Perhaps Hawthorne himself best summed up the fraught relationship between the nineteenth-century American and the historical Puritan in a frequently quoted line: "Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank him, not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages."58”
― The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
― The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
“When anxiety about the course of a new cultural movement or political controversy arose, the average American did not have far to go to find a handy historical parallel to express quickly and completely the nature of his fears. If the concern threatened his sense of himself as part of a new nation that was moving forward, the metaphor of Salem witchcraft functioned well as a universally familiar shorthand for the social and political costs of sliding backward into a colonial world of irrationality, tyranny, and superstition.”
― The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
― The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
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