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100 1 _aFrancis, Richard,
_d1945-
_9128826
245 1 0 _aJudge Sewall's apology :
_bthe Salem witch trials and the forming of an American conscience /
_cRichard Francis.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bFourth Estate,
_cc2005.
300 _axvii, 412 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-395) and index.
520 _aBiographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the struggle to maintain unity emerged the forces that drove the Salem tragedy. Five guilt-wracked years after pronouncing judgment, Sewall recanted the guilty verdicts, praying for forgiveness. This marked the moment when modern American values came into being--the shift from an almost medieval view of good and evil to a respect for the mysteries of the human heart. Drawing on Sewall's diaries, Francis shows us the early colonists as flesh and blood idealists, striving for a new society while coming to terms with the imperfections of ordinary life.--From publisher description.
600 1 0 _aSewall, Samuel,
_d1652-1730.
_9128827
600 1 0 _aSewall, Samuel,
_d1652-1730
_xEthics.
_9128828
650 0 _aPuritans
_zMassachusetts
_vBiography.
_9128829
650 0 _aJudges
_zMassachusetts
_vBiography.
_9128830
650 0 _aMerchants
_zMassachusetts
_vBiography.
_9128831
650 0 _aTrials (Witchcraft)
_zMassachusetts
_zSalem.
_9128832
651 0 _aMassachusetts
_xHistory
_yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
_9128833
651 0 _aSalem (Mass.)
_xHistory
_yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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