A review by noahbw
Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience by Richard Francis

3.0

This really is just a biography of Sewall, with the Witch Trials and his later apology making up just some of the pivotal parts of the book. I enjoyed this most for the life it gives to early Boston/New England/America and especially Puritanism (and Old South!). Although many "irrelevant" facts of Sewall's life ended up being significant and/or interesting, some of the other details Francis recounted from Sewall's diary got a little uninteresting to me.