Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience by Richard Francis

Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience

Richard Francis

412 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging reflective slow-paced
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The Salem witch trials of 1692 are remembered as a notorious example of injustice. Judge Samuel Sewall presided over the trials, in which the condemned were faced with harsh and at times lethal judgment. But five years later, Sewall publicly recan...

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