Ever wonder what really happened in Salem all those years ago? I realized that my knowledge of it was limited to (1) The Crucible and (2) the offhand comment my high school history teacher made about the possibility they were all high. Rosalyn Schanzer takes us through the blow-by-blow of what we know happened—the fits, the accusations, the hysteria, the biased judges, the tragic executions.
Spoiler alert, but I imagine many of your questions will go unanswered, as mine were. What was fake and what was real? What was honest and what was false? What were the motivations? Schanzer gives an overview of the various theories scholars have come up with to answer these questions, but we don’t really know. Still, this makes for a very interesting read, and helped me distinguish between tales and reality.
And then there are the illustrations. Fantastic! Dynamic black and white scratch board illustrations, with little red accents add real pizzazz.
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