Convict Transportation from Great Britain to the American Colonies (An “Early American Crime” Series) by Anthony Vaver
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Description:
Most people associate convict transportation with Australia, when in reality colonial America served as the first major destination for transported British convicts. Over the course of the eighteenth century, Great Britain forcibly shipped over 50,000 convicts to the American colonies, where they were auctioned off like cattle to plantation owners in Virginia and Maryland. Many of these convicts were separated from their families and friends back in England over the theft of what sometimes amounted to less than one shilling.
Convict Transportation from Great Britain to the American Colonies brings together all of the articles from the Convict Transportation series that appeared on EarlyAmericanCrime.com in an easy to read, linear format. The series looks at why the British government needed to invent what amounted to a new form of institutionalized criminal punishment, who transported the convicts, what it was like for the convicts to travel overseas, and what happened to them after they landed in America.
This collection of articles offers a complete overview of this often neglected chapter in American history and will appeal to anyone interested in crime and punishment, colonial America, British history, or immigration. Readers of this e-book will find the history of convict transportation to be fascinating and will discover that this form of criminal punishment is in actuality a unique American phenomenon.
Anthony Vaver is the author and publisher of EarlyAmericanCrime.com, and has broad expertise in the social and cultural history of crime and punishment. He holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.L.S. from Rutgers University.
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