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: 9780007163632

ISBN-10: 0007163630

ISBN-13: 9780007163632

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Authors: Richard Francis

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The Salem witch hunt has entered our vocabulary as the very essence of injustice. Judge Samuel Sewall presided at these trials, passing harsh judgment on the condemned. But five years later, he publicly recanted his guilty verdicts and begged for forgiveness. This extraordinary act was a turning point not only for Sewall but also for America's nascent values and mores. In Judge Sewall's Apology, Richard Francis draws on the judge's own diaries, which enables us to see the early colonists not as grim ideologues, but as flesh-and-blood idealists, striving for a new society while coming to terms with the desires and imperfections of ordinary life. Through this unsung hero of the American…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English