03333nam 2200757 a 450 991045804470332120211005082351.01-283-37346-797866133734650-19-984376-7(CKB)2550000000075494(EBL)829359(OCoLC)769344035(SSID)ssj0000571000(PQKBManifestationID)12242411(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571000(PQKBWorkID)10611389(PQKB)10906317(MiAaPQ)EBC829359(Au-PeEL)EBL829359(CaPaEBR)ebr10520346(CaONFJC)MIL337346(MiAaPQ)EBC829358(Au-PeEL)EBL829358(EXLCZ)99255000000007549420101201d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA merciless place[electronic resource] the fate of Britain's convicts after the American Revolution /Emma ChristopherNew York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (453 p.)"First published in Australia in 2010 by Allen & Unwin"--T.p. verso.0-19-978255-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-412) and index.Destinations for Britain's transported convicts, c. 1770-1800 -- West Africa, c. 1780-1822 -- Bound for America -- Mr. Jefferson and Patrick Madan -- London in flames -- The "best sacrifices for death" -- Africa -- The battle for the coast -- Deserting to the enemy -- A plantation with slaves -- A mutiny and a most peculiar murder -- Trouble at Goree Island -- "Naked and diseased on the sandy shore" -- Trying America again -- The once mighty are fallen -- Lemane Island -- The end of the African disaster -- Afterword.Since Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts has burned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger story is even more dramatic--the saga of forgotten men and women scattered to the farthest corners of the British ePenal transportationGreat BritainHistory18th centuryPenal transportationGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPrisonersGreat BritainHistory18th centuryPrisonersGreat BritainHistory19th centuryConvict shipsGreat BritainHistory18th centuryConvict shipsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPenal coloniesHistory18th centuryPenal coloniesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783InfluenceElectronic books.Penal transportationHistoryPenal transportationHistoryPrisonersHistoryPrisonersHistoryConvict shipsHistoryConvict shipsHistoryPenal coloniesHistoryPenal coloniesHistory365/.34Christopher Emma1971-1028163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458044703321A merciless place2444037UNINA