Analysis Of Rosalyn Schanzer s Witches - 992 Words

In Rosalyn Schanzer’s Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, the Salem Witch trials took place. What happened in Salem was something horrible, they hanged 19 innocent people for witchcraft and 1 was pressed to death. the hangings were on Gallows Hill. Not only that, but 200 people were accused. The Trials were Awful, so many lies told. Mothers accused children, and they did the same. Brothers accused brothers, and etcetera. Yet the aftermath was probably just as bad. People died, probably from the prison’s condition. people’s â€Å"apologies† were just another lie told after the trials ended (And what more could be said about the people who didn’t even apologize). last but not least the Money. Let the aftermath begin. The deaths, 20 people died during the trials. but what about after? 5 people died in jail because of prison conditions. Sarah Osborne, Roger Toothaker, Ann Foster, and Lydia Dustin. (information from dbq.) â€Å" Parris’s niece Abigail stopped giving testimony against the accused witches by June 1692, long before the trials ended. Nobody knows why she disappeared from the hearings, but Abigail is the other accuser who may actually have been sick. She never did fully recover from the fits she had suffered and was no older than 17 when she died.† Schanzer, Rosalyn. Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2011. Print. â€Å"Mr. Burroughs was carried in a cart with the others through the streets