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

Name: Judge Sewall's Apology The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
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ISBN: 9780007163625

ISBN-10: 0007163622

ISBN-13: 9780007163625

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Francis

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The Salem witch hunt of 1692 has entered our vocabulary as the very essence of injustice. Biographer and novelist Richard Francis looks at the familiar drama with fresh eyes, grasping the true significance of this cataclysm through the personal story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, campaigner against periwigs, family man, gallant wooer. Sewall's life encompassed the tensions that faced the second-generation colonists, caught between the staunch conservatism of the Puritans and the possibilities their new world offered. Everywhere there was conflict, schism, and violence; the new Americans…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/9/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



American Tragedy



The Shaggy Dog



"Our Hithertos of Mercy"



The First American Tourist



The Yellow Bird



"Vae, Vae, Vae, Witchcraft"



Oyer and Terminer



The King and Queen of Hell



Speaking Smartly about the Salem Witchcrafts



Judge Sewall's Apology



American Comedy



American Pastoral



The Selling of Joseph



"Wigg'd and Powder'd with Pretence"



"Impartial Light"



"The Concomitant Rain-bow"



"Wave after Wave, Wave after Wave"



Putting to Sea in Wintertime



"Rocqued Like a Cradle"


Notes


Bibliography


Index