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A merciless place : the fate of Britain's convicts after the American Revolution / Emma Christopher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christopher, Emma, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penal transportation--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Penal transportation.
- Penal transportation--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Penal colonies.
- History.
- Convict ships.
- Prisoners.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.
- United States.
- Prisoners--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Prisoners--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Convict ships--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Convict ships--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Penal colonies--History--18th century.
- Penal colonies--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Destinations for Britain's transported convicts, c. 1770-1800
- West Africa, c. 1780-1822
- Bound for America
- Mr. Jefferson and Patrick Madan
- London in flames
- The "best sacrifices for death"
- Africa
- The battle for the coast
- Deserting to the enemy
- A plantation with slaves
- A mutiny and a most peculiar murder
- Trouble at Goree Island
- "Naked and diseased on the sandy shore"
- Trying America again
- The once mighty are fallen
- Lemane Island
- The end of the African disaster
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199782550
- 0199782555
- OCLC:
- 681503781
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