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Samuel Sewell's Apology for the Salem Witch Trials
In 1697, four years after the witch trials ended, there was a day of fasting and atonement. No other judge had ever publicly apologized for the Salem witch trials. Samuel Sewell's apology cost him professionally; he was mostly ostracized. He continued fasting one day each year for the rest of his life to ask for forgiveness from God.