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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780817387495 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780817318260 (trade cloth : alk. paper)

Atlantic crossings

Print version: Ziegler, Edith Miriam. Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014] Atlantic crossings ISBN 9780817318260

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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(OCoLC)871780719