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The document summarizes some of the unusual punishments used in Puritan New England, including the bilbo (leg shackles), cleft stick (wooden gag), branding, and scarlet letters denoting the crime. Puritans took laws from the Bible rather than English law and punished moral offenses like blasphemy, drunkenness, and fornication more harshly than crimes against property. Punishments were meant to publicly shame offenders and deter others from committing similar sins or crimes against religious laws and communi
- Author
- Luke Hanscom
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- EN