Crime and Punishment in Early New England
by
Juliet Haines Mofford
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Tales of the country’s original criminals—and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds
Scarlet Letters, wanton dalliances, Sabbathbreaking, and debt: Colonial laws were easily broken and the malefactors who broke them, swiftly punished. How did our ancestors deal with murder...