Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 /
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2014]
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| Edice: | Atlantic crossings.
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Obsah:
- 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.