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The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present

The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister (Foreword by), Silvia Federici (Afterword by)Publish date:2024-05-08Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Llewellyn PublicationsISBN-13:9780738776279ISBN-10:738776270UPC:9780738776279Book Category:Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Witchcraft, WomenSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCW342A3M1

Past and present collide in this page-turning investigation into Salem's irrepressible question: how could this have happened?

In 1692, Martha Allen Carrier was hanged in the Salem witch trials as the "Queen of Hell." Three hundred years later, her nine-times-great-granddaughter, Alice Markham-Cantor, set out to discover why Martha had died. As she chased her ancestor through the archives, graveyards, and haunted places of New England, grappling with what we owe the past, Alice discovered a shocking truth: witch hunts didn't end in Salem.

Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters, The Once & Future Witch Hunt does not treat Salem as a cautionary tale. It treats Salem as an instruction manual--not on how to perform witch hunts, but how to stop them.

Foreword by Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author.

Afterword by Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Llewellyn PublicationsISBN-13:9780738776279ISBN-10:738776270UPC:9780738776279Book Category:Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Witchcraft, WomenSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCW342A3M1

Alice Markham-Cantor is a writer and fact-checker from Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been published in New York Magazine, Scientific American, The Nation, and elsewhere. She serves on the working committee of the International Network Against Accusations of Witchcraft and Associated Harmful Practices (TINAAWAHP), and she spoke at the first and second Feminist Conferences on the Witch Hunts hosted by the Campaña por la Memoria de las Brujas in Spain. She is the writer and co-producer of A Witch Story, an award-winning documentary about Salem and her research.

Rebecca Traister is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and she is a contributing editor at Elle magazine. Traister is the author of New York Times bestseller Good and Mad. Visit her at RebeccaTraister.com.

Silvia Federici is a New York-based scholar, teacher, and feminist who wrote Caliban and the Witch. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. She also taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.


Publisher: Llewellyn Publications

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