How are the Salem Witch Trial and the Rosewood Massacre alike? In the article of the Salem Witch Trials (Upham, Charles) It was a time period where people were not as sane as today’s people. There was a belief of witches started by a group of girls. This was made up to save themselves from their own wrong doings or because they did not like someone else so they would claim that someone is a witch and has bewitched them. . The accused person would be tried and killed. They would be hung with or without evidence. If you were innocent or not was irrelevant. This accusation continued leaving 150 people accused and 19 killed.

. The Rosewood Massacre started by a caucasian woman claiming she had been rapped by an African American. This started