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The author, a descendent of Samuel Sewall, chronicles the controversy surrounding the judge's involvement in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and his subsequent public repentance.
"In 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 …
Traces the story of the judge responsible for executing twenty Salem witch trial victims, discussing how he came to regret his actions, and his later efforts to oppose slavery and further Native American relations and sexual equality.