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

Author/creator Ziegler, Edith Miriam, 1944-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Description228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Variant title Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women
Series Atlantic crossings
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013035417
ISBN9780817318260 (trade cloth : alk. paper)

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