1814 1st LAWS of Massachusetts Bay WITCHCRAFT Colonial America Slavery Indians

1814 1^st LAWS of Massachusetts Bay WITCHCRAFT Colonial America Slavery Indians  

“The Charters and General Laws of Massachusetts” is a rare, early 19^th-century book outlining the laws established in colonial Massachusetts. This book, like many early law books, covers basic day-to-day laws – requirements for fishermen, town establishment, ship building, and the like. However, this work allows the modern day to reader to peer into the early colonial laws saturated in puritanism that remained in place into the 19^th century. Some examples include:

• Anti-Catholic, Anti-Anabaptist, and Anti-Quaker legislation (i.e. excommunication and/or ban of papists and Jesuits)
• Torture
• Polygamy
• Incest
• Cross-dressing
• Heresy
• Blasphemy
• Idolatry
• Witchcraft
• Slavery
• Indians
• Rights of Minorities

Item number: #12531

Price: $499

Massachusetts

The charters and general laws of the colony and province of Massachusetts Bay

Boston : Printed and published by T.B. Wait and Co., 1814. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • vii, [1], 868
• References: Sabin 45674;
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~9.75in X 6.25in (25cm x 16cm)

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