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Journey Through Time

41. Salem Witch Trials: The Legacy (Ep 3)

Journey Through Time

Goalhanger

History

4.3595 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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How did the executions for witchcraft finally come to an end? What does a community do to reckon with the aftermath of all this violence? Why have the Salem Witch Trials become shorthand for the prosecution of outsiders and dissidents for centuries?  Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell for the final chapter in the story of The Salem Witch Trials.  Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden Producer: Alice Horrell Head of History: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm David O'Doshoga.

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And I'm Sarah Churchwell.

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And this is the last of our three-part series on the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century. And last week, Sarah, you explained the wave of accusations, confessions, torture and executions that consume

1:34.9

that community in Salem, Massachusetts. It was like a virus that spread from Salem Village

1:39.7

to the surrounding settlements. We are now in the autumn of 1692, in the midst of a wave of violence,

1:48.2

of judicial violence, of executions. Where does the story go next? So as we were saying last time,

1:54.4

the trial's credibility was starting to falter by this point because of exactly what you just

1:59.6

described, the sense of can it really be

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