In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, “it were better that ten suspected” these “escape, than that one innocent person …be condemned”
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Today’s Final Jeopardy Category is: Early American History
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In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, “it were better that ten suspected” these “escape, than that one innocent person …be condemned”
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The Final Jeopardy Answer is: Witches
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The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and trials for persons accused of witchcraft that took place in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
Increase Mather, the president of Harvard College and a well-known sage of the Bay, defended the Salem Witch Trials and the judges in Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits which he published in November 1692, but also issued words of caution in the quote: “It were preferable that ten alleged witches should escape than that one innocent person be condemned.”
On the basis of moral considerations and with the support of his education, Mather argued against the use of spectral evidence to support convictions. Because of this, many witchfinders lost their reputations, and people started to think that the sick were possessed rather than being bewitched.
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