Samuel Sewall
Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts · Writers · Lived 1652 to 1730 · aged 77
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.
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He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court.
