During the eighteenth century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. The first comprehensive account of the transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia, Bound for America combines analysis with a vivid narrative to provide new insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic.
| ISBN: | 9780198202110 |
| Publication date: | 2nd August 1990 |
| Author: | A Roger Professor of History, Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ekirch |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
European history History of the Americas Social and cultural history Crime and criminology |