"In Massachusetts towns, most adults were prosecuted at least once for criminal offenses against order--commonly small Sabbath violations, minor cases of disturbing the peace, sexual offenses, idleness, lying, domestic disorder, or drunkenness." fuuuuuuuuuuuuck this place
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fear the Maenads of Marbleheadpic.twitter.com/h6VyP2E6m4
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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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