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Category Archives: 3. Business of Transportation

The Business of Convict Transportation: “Weren’t the Convicts All Sent to Georgia?”

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 […]

The Business of Convict Transportation: Francis March and the Brief Experiment

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. Before passage of the Transportation Act of 1718, the British government conducted an experiment by contracting out the transportation of some of its convicts to a West Indies merchant, Francis March. On December 7, 1716, March received a government contract […]

The Business of Convict Transportation: Overview

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. […]