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Rachel Dyer (Literary Classics)

paperback – March 1, 1996
by Neal, John
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ISBN-13: 9781573920490 ISBN-10: 1573920495
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Binding
paperback
Published
March 1, 1996
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.20×15.20 cm

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Rachel Dyer (Literary Classics) by Neal, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781573920490.

The Salem witch trials, a shameful episode in early New England history, provided a salient theme for several nineteenth-century American writers, including John Greenleaf Whittier and John William De Forest. Novelist and reformer John Neal (1793-1876) was an advocate of, among other causes, female suffrage and capital punishment reform. His novel, Rachel Dyer (1828) deals with the hysteria and scapegoating that surrounded the trials. Mixing drama with history, Neal exposes, through his protagonists, the still explosive issues of injustice and religious bigotry.