Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

By Alice Morse Earle

Book Overview

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 published in 1896. It is a catalog of early American crimes and their penalties, with chapters on the pillories, stocks, the scarlet letter, the ducking stool, discipline of authors and books (egad!), and four other horrifying examples of ways in which those who transgressed the laws of Colonial America were made to pay for their sins.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804809593
• ISBN13: 9780804809597
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Tuttle Pub
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher