
SALEM EPISODE 7: Quarrelsome neighbours & family tensions
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Salem and the Puritans - The Importance of Neighbours
I have sympathy with them, but i do also think it was a way of picking up people in a community that didn't like something the puritans didtend to be known for. I'm hard pressed to name a family who hasn't been in court the previous years. And those can be for minor offences, am like questions of boarders, and they can be for major offences as well. Stacy shift suggests there its coincidence that it was in the paris household, against this backdrop of community antagonism, that supernatural activity first broke out. You'l remember from our earlier episode that puritanism placed a high value on conformity. This was not a community that was pathetic to
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