Salem Witch Judge The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

Name: Salem Witch Judge The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
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ISBN: 9780060786618

ISBN-10: 0060786612

ISBN-13: 9780060786618

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eve LaPlante

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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 Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and Arthur Miller. The trials might have doomed Sewall to infamy except for a courageous act of contrition now commemorated in a mural that hangs beneath the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House picturing Sewall's public repentance. He was the only Salem witch judge to make amends. But, remarkably, the judge's story didn't end there. Once he realized his error, Sewall turned his attention to…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Eve LaPlante is a great niece and a first cousin of Abigail and Louisa May Alcott. She is the author of Seized, American Jezebel, and Salem Witch Judge, which won the 2008 Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. She is also the editor of My Heart Is Boundless the first collection of Abigail May Alcott's private papers. She lives with her family in New England.