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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Main Author: Ziegler, Edith M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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'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 s.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780817387495

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