History Through Other People Perspectives In The Salem Witch Trials

In society people learn about history through other people perspectives because we are only told about history through one person’s viewpoints and beliefs. It is hard to learn the full truth of history because most books we read about history is very one sided. Many events that happened in the past are told by one side, you don't get all perspectives of the time. In school you learn what the government feels like telling you and then hide the other information or perspectives. For example, in high school my US history class taught us a lot of things that the US did good and bad. But it was told only in one viewpoint, we didn't talk about what the minority groups of the time were thinking or feeling. In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts the town
Most times people accused people because of personal reasons never actually having real evidence to prosecute them. The town of Salem was very religious. According to Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum in the book Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England, The Salem Witch scare occurred because the people that were accusing people of being witches had power in the town. And the accusers were lower class people that didn't follow the church as strongly as others. And people of the town went along with this because they didn't want to fight against someone with power and maybe accused of being a witch also. During the Salem Witch trials if you had power in the town you had the privilege to accuse people of being witches and people will follow and if you didn’t have power in the town or follow the church well enough you were at risk of being
Daniel Poole died leaving his wife with all his debt to pay off but no money. She later married William Goode. “Goode of Salem and sarah, his wife, formerly the wife of Daniel Poole, now deceased, and tp take bond of him to the value of fourteen pounds together surely…”(3) The Goode family spent all their lives poor and homeless renting out rooms around salem because they had to always pay Poole’s debt. Once the Goode stayed in Samuel and Mary Abbey’s home and suddenly and unlucky event happened to their cows and they blamed sarah good for it during her trial. “Sarah good was of so turbulent a spirit, spiteful, and so maliciously bent, that these deponents could not suffer her to live in her house.”(4) Since the people of Salem were puritans they believe in the devil and paranormal powers. This testimony is a great example of something in a horror movie about paranormal powers and demons taking over people. Sadly at this time the people of Salem believed in this stuff and really believed that Sarah had the capabilities to kill caddle. “The winter following after the said Sarah was gone from our house[Abbey’s House], we began to lose cattle, and lost several after an unusual manner,”(5) In 1692, the technology they had wasn’t very advance so they couldn’t figure out why somethings happen so they thought it was god or the evil doing it. So when the Abbey’s cows started to