A Failure of Human Empathy: The Salem Witch Trials
By Edgar Louis de Gracia HAPI Scholar The Salem Witch Trials were a series of witchcraft cases in 1692-1693 in colonial Massachusetts. It was believed that witches were young women and men who were possessed by the devil or involved themselves in “the dark arts”. By then, the belief wasn’t new: the idea of the […]
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