Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by A. Roger Ekirch

Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775

A. Roger Ekirch

277 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished 50,000 convicts to America--the largest body of immigrants, aside from African slaves, ever sent across the Atlantic--in hopes of restoring social peace at home without posing the threat to traditional fr...

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