"The Devil Made Me Do It!"

How did seventeenth and eighteenth century New England communities handle deviants?  How did our ancestors deal with murder and mayhem?  Scarlet Letters, wanton dalliances, Sabbath-breaking, and debt: Colonial laws were easily broken and the malefactors who broke them, swiftly punished.  Tales of a young country’s original criminals—and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds written by Juliet Haines Mofford

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• 221 pages