Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Subtitle: Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780817318260
Subjects: Women prisoners; Prisoners, great britain; Transportation; Crime, united states
Description: Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Titled using epithets that their colonial masters applied to the convicts, Edith M. Ziegler's Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women examines the lives of this intriguing subset of American immigrants. -- from dust jacket.