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Welcome to Salem, investigating the witch trials.

Brought to you by History Extra. I'm Ellie Cawthorne. This is episode three.

New England in 1692 was not America as we think of it today, but an outpost teetering on the edge of a precipice.

Settlers dreamed of building a new Jerusalem, but their new world was a small clearing in a raging wilderness full of threats, both physical and spiritual.

If we're to gain any insight on why events at Salem unfolded as they did,

we need to understand what life was like in a New England settlement in 1692.

So in today's episode, we'll be looking at the pressures on this isolated new community

and how they could have impacted on those living there.

According to historian of witchcraft, Owen Davies, the first thing to consider is the fact

that Salem had only been settled some six decades earlier in 1626.

It was named after the Old Testament city of

peace and was founded with big ambitions. What to me is the most interesting as a historian about

it is putting it in that emerging societal context or cultural context, you know, of a new founder.

This isn't villages and towns where, you know, for centuries of legend and tradition has built up, you know, in a sense that they're out there to fund a new Jerusalem.

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