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Once he realized his error, Sewall turned his attent to other pressing social issues. Five years and much soul-searching later, Sewall publicly repented of his part in the witch trials. D… Plus…

Once he realized his error, Sewall turned his attent to other pressing social issues. Five years and much soul-searching later, Sewall publicly repented of his part in the witch trials. Drawing on Sewalls diaries and stories told by her Aunt Charlotte, LaPlante sketches a compelling portrait of a committed family man, a dedicated magistrate and a deeply religious Puritan confronting his own shortcomings and questing the doctrines of his relig. Product DescriptIn 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 contrit now commemorated in a mural that hangs beneath the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House picturing Sewalls public repentance. He was the only Salem witch judge to make amends.But, remarkably, the judges story didnt end there. Once he realized his error, Sewall turned his attent 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, Americas first antislavery tract. While his peers viewed Native Americans as savages, Sewall advocated for their essential rights and encouraged their educat, even paying for several Indian youths to attend Harvard College. Finally, at a time when women were universally considered inferior to men, Sewall published an essay affirming the fundamental equality of the es. The text of that essay, composed at the deathbed of his daughter Hannah, is republished here for the first time.In Salem Witch Judge, acclaimed biographer Eve LaPlante, Sewalls great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter, draws on family lore, her ancestors personal diaries, and archival documents to open a window onto life in colonial America, ing a portrait of a man traditally vilified, but who was in fact an innovator and foreher who came to represent the best of the American spirit.From Publishers WeeklyIn 1692, Salem magistrate Samuel Sewall (1652-1730), along with several others, presided over the convict and execut of 20 people accused of witchcraft. Five years and much soul-searching later, Sewall publicly repented of his part in the witch trials. Much as she did inAmerican Jezebel, the marvelous biography of her 12th-generat ancestor Anne Hutchinson, LaPlante, who counts Sewall as her sixth-great-grandher, richly narrates his life in its cultural and religious setting. Drawing on Sewalls diaries and stories told by her Aunt Charlotte, LaPlante sketches a compelling portrait of a committed family man, a dedicated magistrate and a deeply religious Puritan confronting his own shortcomings and questing the doctrines of his relig. After his public repentance, Sewall reconsidered many Puritanchings and wrote controversial treatises arguing for the equality of Native Americans, women and slaves. LaPlantes splendid biography brings a personal touch to Sewalls story (also recently recounted by historian Richard Francis inJudge Sewalls Apology, 2005) and his efforts to take the difficult but righteous path.(Oct. 1)Copyright ? Reed Business Informat, a divis of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From BooklistSewall (1652?1730) was an English-born American jurist who presided over the 1692 witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Nineteen innocent men and women were hanged, and one man was pressed to death with large stones, the result of trumped-up charges of witchcraft. Some suspects were strangers to Sewall, but others were his friends. For several years, he struggled with a growing sense of shame and remorse and later assumed in public the blame for the executs. He spent much of the remainder of his life trying to restore himself in the eyes of God. Sewall wrote prodigiously and left behind extensive diaries, poems, essays, books, annotated almanacs, ledgers, and letters. His diary, covering the years from 1672 to 1729, was first published in the nineteenth century and is still in print. LaPlante also chronicles the mans later life?Sewall became the author of Americas first antislavery t, Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Edition Description: First, Binding: Hardcover, Publication Date: 02-10-2007, Sprache: English, Publication Year: 02-10-2007, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Inches: 1.4X9X6.2, ISBN-10: 0060786612, ISBN-13: 9780060786618, SKU: SONG0060786612, Buchtitel: Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall, HarperOne<

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