KILLING the WITCHES
The Horror of Salem
Massachusetts
BILL O'REILLY
Review by Author Roy
Murry
Born and raised in
Lowell, Massachusetts, one of my high school's excursions was to visit Salem as
part of our history class. Reading KILLING THE WITCHES brought alive that trip and the
memories embedded in my brain.
The Puritan witch hunts stained the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the original colonialists. This story-telling book details how they started and ended, naming the culprits and victims.
Also, at the time, many cities in the rest of the world had the same problem. They hung or burned people to death for what they considered witchcraft.
In KILLING, it is noted how those witch trials and killings produced part of the Bill of Rights attached to The US Constitution. This process included debates about church and state function in government by people whose names you should know.
This discourse and the effect on the development of the United States would not have happened if it were not for the KILLING of WITCHES. Well-written book for the Inquisitive Mind.
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