Mather, Cotton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...generally pictured unsympathetically as the archetype of the narrow, intolerant, severe Puritan, and his part in the Salem witch trials in 1692 is often recalled. Although he did not approve of all the trials, he had helped to stir up the wave of hysterical...