A truly dark period in our colonial history, where superstition and unexplainable events were viewed as supernatural. Richard Godbeer’s book, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, Went into specific detail of witchcraft accusations in Stamford, Connecticut. GodBeer, the author of 4 additional books including, The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief history with Documents, and a current teacher at the University of Miami. Godbeer, has been awarded many research fellowships from multiple groups of people. Since he is a well respected professor, this book was a good way to educate not only college students but also high schoolers. This teaches the younger generation the most important and interesting facts about a time when America was filled with…show more content… Godbeer uses this example because it showed that even though they had somewhat evidence, they had to take this like a legitament trial with witnesses and not just basing it off blame. Some of the time the people accused of being witches were acquitted for not enough evidence of witchcraft. Just like in this book when various testimonies from the towns people claimed that Disborough and Clawson were causing the death of various animals. Even with all this evidence, Jones legally could not accuse them of witchcraft. This just shows that not all women were executed for being accused of being a witch. In fact In this book one of the women that was being tried was had in fact been tried before. Disborough had been tried as a witch several times before. She was convicted in the end of the book for an unnatural growth on her body. This was a clear representation of the biased jury. Disborough was later released The Salem witch trials were not like any other witch hunt that had ever happened. There was so much hysteria and spectral evidence that anybody in Salem could have been convicted.
