Tag: colonial history
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Podcast Episode: Connecticut Witch Trial Victim Exoneration Testimony with William and Jennifer Schloat
In episode 29 of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we talked exoneration with two people who gave testimony to the Joint Committee on Judiciary of the Connecticut General Assembly, William Schloat and his mother, Jennifer.
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Podcast Episode: Connecticut Witch Trials 101 Part 2: Witchcraft Belief, the Founding of Connecticut, and Alice Young
In episode 28 of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we continued our 101 series on the Connecticut Witch Trials. We discussed witchcraft belief in the early modern West, the development of the Connecticut colony, and the case of Alice Young, first person hanged for witchcraft in New England.
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Podcast Episode: Connecticut Witch Trials 101, Part 1
In episode 26 of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we began a 101 series on the Connecticut Witch Trials, providing a thorough overview.
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Podcast Episode: Goody Bassett, Accused Witch of Stratford, Connecticut
On a bonus episode of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we discussed honoring the memory of Goody Bassett, who was executed for witchcraft in Stratford in 1651.
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Podcast Episode: Representative Jane Garibay on Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Legislation
On our 21st episode of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we discussed exonerating the people accused of witchcraft in colonial Connecticut.
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Podcast Episode: Between God and Satan with Beth Caruso and Katherine Hermes
On our 19th episode of Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast, we discussed potential ties between witch trials in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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An Introduction to the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project
and 1697, at least 45 people were accused of witchcraft in the Connecticut and New Haven colonies. 34 people were indicted on formal charges of witchcraft, including 24 women, 6 of their husbands, 3 men charged alone, and 1 unidentified individual. 11 victims are known to have been hanged, 9 women and 2 men. Both…
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The Alice (Alse) Young Story: Significant Connections to the Rest of Early New England History Uncovered and Brought to Life in One of Windsor: the Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging Beth M Caruso
Our views of the New England witch trials are skewed by the intensity and magnitude of the Salem Witch trials of 1692. (Not to mention that the Salem trials are the only ones that get any recognition in history textbooks.) But Salem was really the last big eruption, a grand gruesome finale of many witchcraft…
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Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project Statement on Proposed Resolution to Exonerate Those Accused of Witchcraft
The Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project is pleased that Rep. Jane Garibay has introduced HJ No. 21, Resolution Recognizing the Unfair Treatment of Individuals Accused of Witchcraft During the Seventeenth Century.
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Unearthing the First American Witch Hanging Case by Beth M Caruso
Few people have ever heard of Alice ‘Alse’ Young, the first witch-hanging victim in the American colonies. The fact that ten others were also hanged in Connecticut years before the Salem witch trials is also largely unknown. My novel One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging aims to raise awareness about…
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