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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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Is killing the witches. The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts out September twenty six,
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and the first third of the book is about this mass murder that the
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authorities in the Massachusetts Bay Column he wreaked upon these four people, and it's
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harrowing. I mean, people have no idea. And we started the book
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on the Mayflower, the voyage over and you have no blanket idea what those
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people went through to get here. But then the book takes a turn into
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how the witch trials influenced our constitution. And Benjamin Franklin was right in the
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middle of all this because he was so appalled by the murders and that's what
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they were in Salem, that he turned against religion. He was a Bostonian,
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Benjamin Franklin. He moved to Philadelphia as an adult, all right,
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and his parents were Puritans. They were the same sect that was killing the
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witches. Fankland, who was a genius at the age of twelve, he
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would have been a great talk radio host. Okay, he actually went to
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the house of the chief witch hunter, Increase Mather, And it's an unbelievably
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fascinating story about how we live today. Goes back to what happened in the
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executing of the twenty Witches