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Emerson Baker

Political Rewind: Emerson Baker, author of 'A Storm of Witchcraft,' discusses today's witch hunts

Friday on Political Rewind, Dr. Emerson Baker talks about the history of witch hunts in America and the political witch hunts of today. 

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Karla Hailer, a teacher from Scituate, Mass., takes a video on July 19, 2017, where a memorial stands at the site in Salem, Mass., where five women were hanged as witches more than three centuries years earlier. Massachusetts lawmakers on have formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.

After 329 years, a woman accused of being a witch in Salem has been exonerated

Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name three centuries after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.

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  • The Associated Press