Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692 Quotes
It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.
Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.
Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.