[bunkerhill7]

``In the 1960s, socialists framed the upheaval as an effort by greedy landowners to steal the property of the victims.``

One of my ancestors was burned at the stake. All her descendants know that they wanted all her properties. Her husband fled north into present-day New Hampshire, but they went there and tracked him down, dragged him back to Mass. and burned him up, too, and thus got all their properties.

[Similar to `Share the Wealth` BS from Obummer, but was `Take the Wealth`]

[Conservative4Ever]

I don’t recall any burnings in Salem village. Hangings and one pressed to death is all I have ever read about. Where did the burnings occure?

[Sherman Logan]

One of my ancestors was burned at the stake. ... but they went there and tracked him down, dragged him back to Mass. and burned him up, too

Very unlikely.

In this country we never burned witches. We hanged 'em.

OTOH, during a hysteria over supposed slave rebellions in NYC, they burned 20 black people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Slave_Revolt_of_1712