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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 other pressing social issues. Struck by the injustice of the New England slave trade, a commerce in which his own relatives and neighbors were engaged, he authored The Selling of Joseph, America''s first antislavery tract. While his peers viewed Native Americans as savages, Sewall advocated

Salem Witch Judge

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Published 4 November 2008
      ISBN-13 9780060859602
      978-0060859602
      ISBN-10 60859601
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      Colonialism and imperialism

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 other pressing social issues. Struck by the injustice of the New England slave trade, a commerce in which his own relatives and neighbors were engaged, he authored The Selling of Joseph, America''s first antislavery tract. While his peers viewed Native Americans as savages, Sewall advocated

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