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4330. LABORERS, Imprisoned.—[continued].

Exhibited as a public spectacle,
with shaved heads and mean clothing,
working on the high roads, produced in the
criminals such a prostration of character, such
an abandonment of self-respect, as, instead of
reforming, plunged them into the most desperate
and hardened depravity of morals and
character.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 45. Ford ed., i, 53.
(1820)