Make me work if you can
T.H. Breen, 18 February 1988
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775
by Roger Ekirch.
Oxford, 277 pp., £25, November 1987,0 19 820092 7 Show More
by Roger Ekirch.
Oxford, 277 pp., £25, November 1987,
“... of particular interest to anyone curious about the first British settlement of Australia, for as Robert Hughes and others have so forcefully reminded us, the closing-off of the North American market for felons after 1776 compelled London officials to find other locations where convicts could be dumped. As James Matra explained in 1783, the British ... ”