"Sexual intercourse was taboo on the Lord's Day. The Puritans believed that children were born on the same day of the week as when they had been conceived. Unlucky infants who entered the world on the Sabbath were sometimes denied baptism."
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"Massachusetts recognized 13 capital crimes in 1648: witchcraft, idolatry, blasphemy, homicide, rape, adultery, bestiality, sodomy, false witness with intent to take life, and a child of 16 or older who was a 'stubborn' or 'rebellious' son, or who 'smote' or 'cursed' a parent."
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Those all got death by hanging. Worse was punishment for the forteenth capital crime, petty treason, the killing of a master by a servant. Two people, both female black slaves natch, were burned at the stake for this.
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"Next to hanging . . . were punishments of maiming--the slitting of nostrils, the amputation of ears, the branding of the face or hands . . . Quaker women were [stripped and carried town to town to be whipped bloody] before the horrified townsmen of Salisbury" rescued them."
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In New England, "'liberty' often described something which belonged not to an individual but to an entire community . . . 'publick liberty' as it was sometimes called was thought to be consistent with close restraints upon individuals."
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"Collective liberty was also expressed in many bizarre obligations . . . Eastham's town meeting ordered that no single man could marry until he had killed six blackbirds or three crows. Every town book contained many such rules."
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"The laws . . . granted some liberties to all men, others to all free men, and a few only to gentlemen . . . 'any man equal to a gentleman' was granted liberty of not to be punished by whipping 'unless his crime be very shameful and his course of life vicious and profligate.'"
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"The founding generation often wrote of 'soul liberty' . . . [what they meant was] freedom for the true faith. . . . this idea of religious liberty consistent with the persecution of [long list of denominations] except those within a very narrow spectrum of Calvinists orthodoxy."
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this concludes my read on the Puritans. what a journey! sorry to end on a B A S I C take but boy just fuck these cops join me next time as I delve into those knockoff Norman bastards, the cavalierspic.twitter.com/lvMXYnp2ev
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and here is the start of my Let's Read Albion's Seed thread on the Cavaliershttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1058233318158753793?s=19 …
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