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Summary: Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL LAPFrancis, Richard
Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005