Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies,

by A. Roger Ekirch

Book Overview

From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished 50,000 convicts to America--the largest body of immigrants, aside from African slaves, ever sent across the Atlantic--in hopes of restoring social peace at home without posing the threat to traditional freedoms raised by the death penalty or a harsh corrective system. Drawing upon archives in Britain and the United States, Bound for America examines the critical role this punishment played in Britain's criminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198200927
• ISBN13: 9780198200925
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"