Quote #1594 about colonial punishments by Alice Morse Earle
"The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool."by Alice Morse Earle
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