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We have so much for which to blame Hawthorne!

Unsurprisingly it sounds like at least a few people decided that the aftermath of the witch trials was a good time to switch religions; the local Anglican churches seem to have gotten a little bit of a boost by comparison. One sort of imagines them putting up billboards advertising themselves as the Distinctly Less Murderous Church.

Same, and same. Schiff actually provides quite a lot of context on the Puritan habit of farming out their children to each other as servants, but very little on the slaves and other extracommunity members; surely some general information on the topic must exist, even if we don't know about Tituba in particular.