Salem Witch Trials Vs Rosewood Essay

What does the Salem Witch Trials and The Rosewood incident have in common? Even though the two are hundreds of years apart they both have similarities with hysteria.

The Salem Witch Trials were started in the spring of 1692 by a young girl named

Abigail Williams in Salem Massachusetts(History.com). The cause of it was the spread of hysteria the idea that people doing witchcraft in the town (History.com). People would accuse others for doing witchcraft just to get revenge, land, or to take the blame off of them (History.com). In the events of this it caused nineteen people to be executed by hanging, burning at the stake, or being crushed by rocks. In total 150 men, women, and children were accused and were awaiting trial before the end of it.(History.com) The Salem Witch Trials came to an end in May of 1693 when William Phips pardoned all and

It was started when a white woman named, Fanny Taylor, claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a black man(Rosewood massacre). The man accused of the assault was a black man named Jesse Hunter, who was an escaped convict (Rosewood Massacre). A group of white men decided to go to Rosewood and look for Jesse Hunter, Aaron Carrier, and Sam Carter, who were to be believed accomplices to the assault(Rosewood Massacre). The men found and captured Aaron Carrier and burned him to death,they also found and captured Sam Carter and had him hung(Rosewood Massacre). When they didn’t find Jesse they went to Aaron Carrier’s cousin Sylvester’s home where they thought Jesse was hiding(Rosewood Massacre). The men rallied and went to the house where they shot Sylvester’s mother and himself while defending his home and burned it down(Rosewood Massacre). On January 6, 1923 a group of around 200 white men went to neighboring towns slaughtering animals, burning buildings, and killing innocent blacks(Rosewood Massacre). After the incident, around 6 blacks were killed and 2 whites were killed during the raids. (Rosewood