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Massachusetts is working to fully atone for the Salem witch trials nearly 400 years after the first person was executed there for witchcraft.
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Massachusetts is working to fully atone for the Salem witch trials nearly 400 years after the first person was executed there for witchcraft.
BOSTON (AP) — In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, de
Massachusetts is working to fully atone for its witch trial legacy nearly 400 years after the first person was executed there for witchcraft. The latest push comes from a group dedicated to clearing the names of all those accused, arrested or indicted for witchcraft in the state.
BOSTON (AP) — In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly four centuries later, the state and region are still working to come to grips with the scope of its witch […]
Massachusetts is working to fully atone for the Salem witch trials nearly 400 years after the first person was executed there for witchcraft.