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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
Alice Morse Earle
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Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days is a history book published in 1896. It was written by
Alice Morse Earle and printed by Herbert S. Stone & Company. Earle was a historian of
Colonial America, and she writes in her introduction:
In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books. An accumulation of notes on old-time laws, punishments and penalties has evoked this volume.
As the title suggests, the subject of the chapters is various archaic punishments. Morse seems to make a distinction between stocks for the feet, in the Stocks chapter, and stocks for the head, described in the Pillory article- which itself clashes with the modern day understanding of a pillory as a whipping post.
Alice Morse Earle (April 27, 1851 – February 16, 1911) was an American historian and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts.
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