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How was the salem witchcraft problem resolved?

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The governor banned the insubstanital evidence the convictions were based on after some high profile people were accused. Conviction was then impossible. Those who remained in jail were released in early 1693 and in around 1713, the colony officially declared everyone innocent.

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