Salem Witch Judge

“LaPlante’s touching biography of Samuel Sewall upends popular stereotypes about Puritans . . . [and] reminds us how quickly the conventional wisdom can shift.” — The New York Times Book Review In 1692, during the nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. 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 d