Complex sentence: Bilboes used as public punishment combined physical discomfort with social humiliation; they were popular in England and America in the colonial and early Revolutionary periods (such as in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) until they were superseded by the use of stocks.
Split into simpler sentences: Bilboes used as public punishment combined physical discomfort with social humiliation. They were popular in England and America in the colonial and early Revolutionary periods (such as in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) until they were superseded by the use of stocks.