The English convict hulks 1600s - 1868: Transporting Criminals to Australia
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them off to the American colonies to be sold as what amounted to slave labour. All this came to an end with the revolution of 1775 and the legal sy...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Yorkshire, Philadelphia
Pen & Sword History
2024
|
In: | Year: 2024 |
Online Access: |
Cover (Verlag) Table of Contents Blurb |
Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 3915 |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
Keywords: |