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

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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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Autor principal: Ziegler, Edith M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women prisoners.
Penal transportation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Prisonnieres > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Women prisoners > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Penal transportation > Maryland > History > 18th century.
Maryland.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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