{"product_id":"salem-witch-judge-9780060859602","title":"Salem Witch Judge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48883757285719,"sku":"9780060859602","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/salem-witch-judge-9780060859602","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}