1. Crime in Early Massachusetts
We hold it therefore our dutie and safetie whilst we are about the further establishing of this government to collect and expresse all such freedomes as for present we foresee may concerne us, and our posteritie after us, And to ratify them with our sollmne consent. ... Many religious leaders preached sermons about God's punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah to remind the people of what could happen to them if they disobeyed God's law. ... Generally adulterers were forced to wear the letter A sewed on their clothes and counterfeiters wore the letter C (Hemlines 140). ... Witchcraft (1...
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