Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall by Eve LaPlante

Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

Eve LaPlante

368 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorn...

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