Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women : Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783.

Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women : Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783.

In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century. Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain�...

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Main Author: Ziegler, Edith M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014
Series:Atlantic crossings.
Subjects:
Penal transportation > Maryland > History > 18th century.
Women prisoners > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Social change, crime, and the law
  • Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile
  • Bound for Maryland
  • Arrival in the New World
  • Servants and masters
  • Escape
  • Going home and staying on
  • Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue
  • Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women
  • Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations
  • Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615
  • Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718
  • Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776
  • Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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