Colonial Law in America: Crime and Punishment - Softcover

Reed, Robert M.

 
9780764337802: Colonial Law in America: Crime and Punishment
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0764337807 ISBN 13: 9780764337802
Verlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Forty lashes for committing adultery? Children taken from their parents for being unruly? Loss of an ear - or even your life -- for stealing? These were the harsh punishments doled out for such crimes in Colonial America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Learn what happened to horse thieves and Sabbath breakers or people engaging in idleness in the thirteen original colonies. Accompanied by 30 postcard images, more than twenty-five "crimes" are covered in this view of law and justice in the 1600s and 1700s. It'll make you appreciate that you live in the twenty-first century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Reed is an award-winning journalist. He has written about antiques, collectibles, and American history for over two decades.

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Verlag
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0764337807
ISBN 13 
9780764337802
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
127
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