Eighteenth-century criminal transportation
Subtitle: the formation of the criminal Atlantic
By: Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton.
Contributors: Rushton, Peter.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Penal colonies -- Great Britain -- Colonies; Penal colonies -- Maryland; Penal colonies -- Virginia
Description: "This study examines the way that thousands of convicts were sent from the regions when circuit judges and county authorities adopted the penalty after 1718. As transportation became more common, so did the necessity of organizing regular shipments to America. Every region developed a transatlantic traffic in convicts, thus creating a criminal Atlantic alongside that of slaves and servants."--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.