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Harlots, hussies & poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation & the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783
- Title
- Harlots, hussies & poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation & the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.
- Author
- Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Atlantic crossings
- Uniform Title
- Atlantic crossings.
- Alternative Title
- Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4696
- ISBN
- 9780817318260 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817318267 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817387495 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013035417
- OCLC
- 858749514
- Author
- Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944-
- Title
- Harlots, hussies & poor unfortunate women : crime, transportation & the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 / Edith M. Ziegler.
- Publisher
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Atlantic crossingsAtlantic crossings.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4696