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

by Edith Miriam Ziegler

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318267
• ISBN13: 9780817318260
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"