Samuel Sewall
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title:
Samuel Sewall
text:
Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay "The Selling of Joseph" (1700), which criticized slavery. He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court.
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Judge in Colonial America (1652 – 1730)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sewall
date created:
2004-02-01T23:03:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T02:22:00Z
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