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

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

A descendant's reckoning from Salem to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Markham-Cantor
• Assisted by: Traister Rebecca (Foreword)
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2024
• EAN: 9780738776279
• ISBN: 978-0-7387-7627-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 444 g
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Massachusetts, RELIGION / History, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Witchcraft, RELIGION / Wicca, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Women, Salem (MA), 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Witchcraft and wicca, C 1600 To C 1700, Witchcraft & Wicca