Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944- author.

Series:

Atlantic crossings.

Atlantic crossings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women prisoners.

Penal transportation--Maryland--History--18th century.

Penal transportation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts-including women-to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Titled using epithets that their colonial masters applied to the convicts, Edith M. Ziegler's Harlots, Hussies and Poor Unfortunate Women examines the

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Social change, crime, and the law

Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile

Bound for Maryland

Arrival in the New World

Servants and masters

Escape

Going home and staying on

Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue

Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women

Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations

Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615

Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718

Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776

Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8749-8

OCLC:

871780719