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Devil Made Me Do it!
Juliet Haines Mofford
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Description for Devil Made Me Do it!
paperback. Discover the antics of New England's original criminals-and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBE; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 18.
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 and mayhem? How did seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England communities handle deviants? How have definitions of criminal behavior and its punishment changed over the centuries? What were early prisons like? What were the duties of a turn-key? Find out all this and more in The Devil Made Me Do It. Drawing on early court dockets, diaries, sermons, gaolers' records, ... Read more
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 and mayhem? How did seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England communities handle deviants? How have definitions of criminal behavior and its punishment changed over the centuries? What were early prisons like? What were the duties of a turn-key? Find out all this and more in The Devil Made Me Do It. Drawing on early court dockets, diaries, sermons, gaolers' records, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, United States
ISBN
9780762771653
SKU
V9780762771653
Shipping Time
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99-15
About Juliet Haines Mofford
Juliet Haines Mofford is a writer and historian based in Bath, ME. She is a former educational board member of the American Association of Museums, and has written feature articles for the Boston Globe’s Sunday Travel Section. She is also a member of Bentley College's Speakers' Bureau.
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