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 conscience -- a Puritan, an antislavery agitator, a
defender of Native American rights, and a Utopian theorist -- we
are granted a fresh perspective on a familiar drama.
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