American Literature / Unit 4 AML 0322 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cotton Mather and *The Wonders of the Invisible World*
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The idea
Cotton Mather, son of Increase and grandson of Richard Mather and John Cotton, entered Harvard at twelve and graduated in sixteen seventy-eight. His Wonders of the Invisible World defended the Salem proceedings and gathered the evidence for witchcraft that the court had accepted.
In practice
The colony's most learned man, defending the court.
Where people slip
The trials ran from sixteen ninety-two into ninety-three.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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