Eighteenth-century criminal transportation : the formation of the criminal Atlantic

Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton

The transportation of English convicts to the American colonies in the eighteenth century was a judicial, cultural and social phenomenon. This study examines the way that thousands of convicts were sent from the regions when circuit judges and county authorities adopted the penalty after 1718. As transportation became more common, so did the necessity of organizing regular shipments to America. Every region developed a transatlantic traffic in convicts, thus creating a criminal Atlantic alongside that of slaves and servants. The print culture of the eighteenth century, particularly the exchange of news stories about crime, produced a common knowledge of convicts on both sides of the Atlantic. As some convicts escaped from the colonies and returned, so the myths and narratives of the failure of transportation grew. At the end of the colonial period, Americans railed against the British, their criminals, and the criminal behaviour of their politicians, while the British showed their contempt for the American 'race of convicts'.

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  • Introduction - - the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic Pedlars in the Outports: Transportation, the Locality and the Atlantic Cities, Regions and their Criminals Gangs, Gentlemen and Gypsies: Narratives of Transportation Flight, Escape and Return Panics and Recriminations: Convergence and Divergence and the Criminal Atlantic Conclusion

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書名 Eighteenth-century criminal transportation : the formation of the criminal Atlantic
著作者等 Morgan, Gwenda
Rushton, Peter
出版元 Palgrave Macmillan
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 xii, 238 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0333793382
NCID BA65185572
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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