Early American Crime

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. After passage of the Transportation Act in 1718, the British government faced the problem of administering the transportation of convicts overseas. The House of Lords resisted acting on the proposal of William Thomson, the main author of the Transportation Act, […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. When I first began my investigation of convict transportation to the American colonies, I fully expected my project to focus on Georgia, because I had a distinct memory from grade school of a map of colonial America with the words […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. Before passage of the Transportation Act in 1718, convict transportation was a haphazard process, mainly because convicts were generally responsible for making their own arrangements for leaving the country. After passage of the Act, convict transportation became an official business. […]