Daily Life During the Salem Witch Trials
- ISBN-10
- 0313374589
- ISBN-13
- 9780313374586
- Series
- Daily Life During the Salem Witch Trials
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO
- Author
- K. David Goss
Description
Discusses daily life during the Salem witch trials in seventeenth-century New England, exploring such topics as domestic life, business, piracy, politics, religion, education, law, and marriage.
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