Salem Witch Trials

SALEM WITCH TRIALS VOL. 10 | OCTOBER 2020

EXPOSED UNEQUAL TREATMENT Discover the segregation in the time of the Salem Witch Trials

ACCUSATIONS AND DEATH What it was like being accused as a witch

A CALL FOR TRUTH The society coming to terms

INEQUALITY A difference in one citizen could mean death or life in jail. This was more likely for women. In the Salem Witch Trials, women were being accused of being witches. The late sixteenth hundreds was an unfortunate time for women who lived in Salem, everything, from wearing red to having an argument with a friend could get you a life long sentence in jail. There were seven women and only three men executed by 1693.

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ACCUSATIONS AND DEATH 200 people were accused by the end of 1692. People tortured and executed just to be called off as a mistake at the end. One of the things that would most likely get you accused of being a witch is being a girl. For thousands of years women have been claimed to be more influenced to sins then men. The poor, the rich, friends, arguments, they could all get suspicions. When you were accused you could either confess and go to jail or deny and die. The strategy to get the ‘witches’ to confess was torture. Death was usually performed in front of an audience.

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A CALL FOR TRUTH By the end of the Salem Witch Trials in 1693 the church and court were called on by their mistake by the governor when his own wife was accused. The courts and churches apologized to the heirs of the people that died, and the Salem Witch Trials was over. A first step towards woman empowerment was made and it was safe again.Â

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