Season 1 · Episode 2
The Afflictions Begin and Accusations Fly
The Salem Witch Trials Podcast
October 16, 202315m 54s
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Show Notes
When two young girls in the household of Salem Reverend Samuel Parris begin to experience strange behaviors, three women find themselves accused of witchcraft. Historian Kathleen Brown, the David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, helps us understand the beginnings of the witch hunt during the first few months of 1692.
Learn more about Professor Brown's book, Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition