Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Christopher, Emma, 1971-

Title A Merciless Place : the Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (453 pages)
text file
Contents Destinations for Britain's transported convicts, c. 1770-1800; West Africa, c. 1780-1822; Introduction; 1 BOUND FOR AMERICA; 2 MR JEFFERSON AND PATRICK MADAN; 3 LONDON IN FLAMES; 4 THE 'BEST SACRIF ICES FOR DEATH'; 5 AFRICA; 6 THE BATTLE FOR THE COAST; 7 DESERTING TO THE ENEMY; 8 A PLANTATION WITH SLAVES; 9 A MUTINY AND A MOST PECULIAR MURDER; 10 TROUBLE AT GORÉE ISLAND; 11 'NAKED AND DISEASED ON THE SANDY SHORE'; 12 TRYING AMERICA AGAIN; 13 THE ONCE MIGHTY ARE FALLEN; 14 LEMANE ISLAND; 15 THE END OF THE AFRICAN DISASTER; Afterword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Notes.
Bibliography BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary 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 empire, driven by the winds of the American Revolution and the currents of the African slave trade. In A Merciless Place, Emma Christopher brilliantly captures this previously unknown story of poverty, punishment, and transportation. The story begins with the American War of Independence, until which many British convicts were shipped across th.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783)
Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Penal transportation.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Penal transportation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Prisoners.
Prisoners -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Convict ships -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Convict ships.
Convict ships -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Penal colonies -- History -- 18th century.
Penal colonies.
Penal colonies -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Christopher, Emma. A Merciless Place : The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2011
ISBN 9780199843763 (electronic book)
0199843767 (electronic book)
9780199782550 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0199782555 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613373465