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100 1 _aEarle, Alice Morse,
_d1851-1911
245 1 0 _aCurious Punishments of Bygone Days
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_Punishments_of_Bygone_Days
500 _aRelease date is 2010-09-27
508 _aProduced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Curious Punishments of Bygone Days" by Alice Morse Earle is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book explores various punishments used in earlier societies, focusing particularly on colonial America. It delves into the mechanisms of punishment, such as stocks, pillories, and more grotesque instruments like the ducking stool, reflecting societal attitudes towards crime, punishment, and public humiliation. The opening of the book presents a foreword where Earle outlines her motivations for writing, suggesting that while the topic is not pleasant, it bears a curiosity that connects the past to the present. Earle emphasizes the public nature of punishments in historical context, highlighting how they served to humiliate offenders as a deterrent. The discussion begins with the bilboes, a form of restraint for public shaming used against various offenders in colonial America, illustrating a society where personal honor and public perception were deeply intertwined, often resulting in severe and humiliating punishments for what might be considered minor offenses by today's standards. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPunishment -- United States -- History -- 17th century
653 _aPunishment -- United States -- History -- 18th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34005
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