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A Country Amusement, Bull Baiting, printed by Carington Bowles, London, circa 1784.
Credit: Printed for and Sold by Carington Bowles No.69 St Paul's Church Yard, London
Pennsylvania colonists brought with them popular games and recreations from the Old World, including bullbaiting, cockfighting, and other violent amusements that the Commonwealth's Quaker leaders abhorred. Laws against such activities, however, then as now, were unable to prevent their continuance.