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Summary: Told in the compelling voice of Rachel Moore, a housemaid in 17th century Puritan Boston and featuring that colony's two most powerful figures in Governor John Winthrop and his courageous opponent Anne Hutchinson, From Infamy to Hope is the story of the religious persecution of a servant girl made pregnant by rape. Convicted of fornication, she is sentenced to wear a black W for "whore" on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Austin Macauley Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWCoble, Colleen
Summary: "Hannah Thomas left the South and all that was familiar to marry her beloved John. But the fact that she's never been quite accepted by his mother and sister and that she doesn't quite fit the strict Massachusetts Puritan community only becomes more difficult when John is killed in one of the first battles in the war for freedom. Hannah is allowed to continue to serve as lightkeeper for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COBFrancis, Richard
Summary: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man. The second-generation colonists were pitted against the pagan Native Americans and a hostile mother country intent on imposing control. Out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEWALL, SAMUEL FRALaPlante, Eve
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2008