Tituba Of Salem Village

Author : Ann Petry
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504019873

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Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry Pdf

Young readers “will be carried along by the sheer excitement of the story” of 17th-century slavery and witchcraft by the million-copy selling author (The New York Times). In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witches are spreading like wildfire throughout the state, filling the heads of Salem’s superstitious, God-fearing residents. When the reverend’s suggestible young daughter, Betsey, starts having fits, the townsfolk declare it to be the devil’s work. Suspicion falls on Tituba, who can read fortunes and spin flax into thread so fine it seems like magic. When suspicion turns to hatred, Tituba finds herself in grave danger. Will she be judged guilty of witchcraft and hanged? Loosely based on accounts of the period and trial transcripts, Ann Petry’s compelling historical novel draws readers into the hysteria of America’s deadly witch hunts.

Author : Ann Petry
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 061310319X

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Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry Pdf

In the Salem Village of 1692, superstition and hysteria peaked with the Salem witch trials. One of the first three "witches" condemned is Tituba, a slave from Barbados. "This restrained but dramatic narrative . . . brings to life not only Tituba but also those around her, and shows how suspicion against her culminated in her arrest and trial".--Booklist.

Author : Ann Petry
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991-10-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064404037

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Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry Pdf

In the Salem Village of 1692, superstition and hysteria peaked with the Salem witch trials. One of the first three "witches" condemned is Tituba, a slave from Barbados. "This restrained but dramatic narrative . . . brings to life not only Tituba but also those around her, and shows how suspicion against her culminated in her arrest and trial".--Booklist.

Author : Elaine G. Breslaw
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814713075

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Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem by Elaine G. Breslaw Pdf

Tituba, a young house servant from the West Indies, allegedly influenced and encouraged occult activities among teenage girls in 17th century Massachusetts, which led to the infamous witch hunts of Salem. This book offers "an imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past".--TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "A valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria".--THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. 15 photos.

Author : Shirley Jackson
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307779885

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The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson Pdf

Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they accused townsperson after townsperson of being witches. Author Shirley Jackson examines in careful detail this horrifying true story of accusations, trials, and executions that shook a community to its foundations.

Author : Maryse Condé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Autobiographical fiction
ISBN : 0813927676

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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé Pdf

CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306822346

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Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach Pdf

The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted," 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton Mather called "a desolation of names." The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And although the flood of names and detail in the history of an extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be remembered and, in remembering specific lives, modern readers can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows readers what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged.

Author : William Miller
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000045361760

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Tituba by William Miller Pdf

The story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was among the first accused inthe 1692 Salem, Massachusetts witch hunts, is told.

Author : Marilynne K. Roach
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1589791320

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The Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach Pdf

The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697 this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it.

Author : Ann Petry
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0606011013

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Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry Pdf

Tituba the slave is convicted of witchcraft because the village people misunderstood her exceptional intelligence and sensitivity

Author : Bernard Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521558204

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Salem Story by Bernard Rosenthal Pdf

Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.

Author : Winfield S. Nevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Occultism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010320000

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Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692 by Winfield S. Nevins Pdf

Author : Joan Holub,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698412347

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What Were the Salem Witch Trials? by Joan Holub,Who HQ Pdf

Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the residents of Salem came to one conclusion: it was witchcraft! Over the next year and a half, nineteen people were convicted of witchcraft and hanged while more languished in prison as hysteria swept the colony. Author Joan Holub gives readers and inside look at this sinister chapter in history.

Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Salem (Mass.)
ISBN : OCLC:28589019

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller Pdf

Author : Anna Myers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802723789

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Time of the Witches by Anna Myers Pdf

Orphaned at the age of four, Drucilla finally has a place she can call home with her new family, the Putnams, of Salem Village. But when a new reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba, life takes a strange and dangerous turn as accusations of witchcraft swirl. Dru is overwhelmed by the fervor of lies and the power of groupthink among the other girls in town; reluctant to turn her back on the Putnams, she utters her own accusations. Only her best friend Gabe sees through the deceit, but it may be too late for Dru to protect the truth, and innocent people will pay the ultimate price. Guiding readers through the confusion of this frightening historical event, Anna Myers weaves a compelling story that will captivate teen readers.