Curious Punishments

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Penology, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), British
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Author: Earle ISBN: 9781462909117
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Publication: September 11, 2012
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing Language: English
Author: Earle
ISBN: 9781462909117
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication: September 11, 2012
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Language: English

In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows.

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting house, but often before any house of God was built, the devil got his restraining engine. And who were the heinous criminals that the righteous put in the stocks? The punishment generally, in England and America both, was for petty thieves, unruly servants, Sabbath-breakers, revilers, gamblers, drunkards, ballad-singers, fortunetellers, traveling musicians, and a variety of other offenders.

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In Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, the punishment did not always fit the crime, as this fine old illustrated history of wrath and righteousness shows.

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting house, but often before any house of God was built, the devil got his restraining engine. And who were the heinous criminals that the righteous put in the stocks? The punishment generally, in England and America both, was for petty thieves, unruly servants, Sabbath-breakers, revilers, gamblers, drunkards, ballad-singers, fortunetellers, traveling musicians, and a variety of other offenders.

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