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Curious Punishments of Bygone Days the Songbird — but she'sColonial American justice was harsh with transgressors: liars were bound to the whipping post and scolding women sentenced to the ducking stool. Derived from court records, newspapers, diaries, and letters, this illustrated volume offers authentic views of many traditional forms of chastisement. These punitive measures were taken against petty thieves, unruly servants, Sabbath breakers, revilers, gamblers, drunkards, ballad singers, fortune tellers,