Should Connecticut's Witch Trial Victims be Exonerated?

Description

Retired police officer Tony Griego and Author Beth Caruso return with witch trial advocate and historic tour guide Mary-Louise Bingham.  We discuss the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project's efforts to clear the names of those accused of witchcraft in colonial Connecticut.

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Citations

John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England 

Paul B. Moyer, Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern 

Cotton Mather Magnalia Christi Americana

CT State Library Samuel Wyllys Papers

CT State HIstorian Walter W. Woodward

Links

Windsor Historical Society

State Representative Jane Garibay

Please sign the petition to exonerate those accused of witchcraft in Connecticut

Mary-Louise Bingham’s YouTube video at Proctor's Ledge about Connecticut victims

CT W.I.T.C.H. Memorial

Salem Witch-Hunt

The Witch Trials Hysteria History of the American Colonies 

Diana DiZoglio Senate Floor Speech Exoneration of Elizabeth Johnson, Jr. 05/26/22

AfAW

Historical Sites with witch trial ties

First Church in Windsor

Connecticut's Old State House

Barnard Park also known as South Green

Hartford Ancient Burial Ground

Activism Timeline:

2005: “ad hoc committee”

2008/2009 attempted legislation

2016 CT W.I.T.C.H. Memorial  Witch Interrogations Trials Colonial Hangings

2022 Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast links

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