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Salem Witch Trials

The Salem Witch Trials
According to Douglas Linder, “from June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallous Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging” (Linder). This heinous crime is now known as the Salem Witch Trials. Among the judges, who sentenced these people to death, was a man named Samuel Sewall. Up until the late nineteenth century, “Samuel Sewell was chiefly known as a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials-the ardent Puritan, who in the words of the poet Whittier, ‘spoke the word that gave the witch’s neck to the cord’ ” (McMichael 137).
Samuel Sewall was from England and he came...

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