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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (Patterson Smith Reprint series in criminology, law enforcement, and social problems. Publication no. 33)

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (Patterson Smith Reprint series in criminology, law enforcement, and social problems. Publication no. 33)

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Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was first publis... Read more
Alice Morse Earle was a social historian of great note at the turn of the century, and many of her books have lived on as well-researched and well-written texts of everyday life in Colonial America. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days was first published in 1896. It is a catalogue of early American crimes and their penalties, with chapters on the pillories, stocks, the scarlet letter, the ducking stool, discipline of authors and books, and four other horrifying examples of ways in which those who transgressed the laws of Colonial America were made to pay for their sins. Contents Include The Bilboes The Ducking Stool The Stocks The Pillory Punishments of Authors and Books The Whipping-Post The Scarlet Letter Branks and Gags Public Penance Military Punishments Branding and Maiming Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.5 in
Print pages146
PublisherPatterson Smith
Publication date July 1, 1969
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780875850337
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Alice Morse Earle
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Alice Morse Earle was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was christened Mary Alice by her parents Edwin Morse and Abby Mason Clary. On 15 April 1874, she married Henry...

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