The Dorchester Witch Trial

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March 07, 2017

Shawn Bodden and Meghna Chakrabarti

Illustration of the trial of Martha Corey, a wife of a Salem Village farmer who was convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. (Illustration by John W. Ehninger in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Houghton/Public Domain)

In 1648, 44 years before Salem's famous persecution of suspected witches, the colony of Dorchester — which was not yet a part of Boston — held its own trial.

Alice Lake was accused, tried and convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death.

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Sarah Black, UMass Boston graduate student in history

This segment aired on March 7, 2017.

The Dorchester Witch Trial

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