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100 1 Christopher, Emma,|d1971-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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245 12 A Merciless Place :|bthe Fate of Britain's Convicts after
the American Revolution.
264 1 Oxford :|bOxford University Press, USA,|c2011.
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504 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.
505 0 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.
520 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.
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aChristopher, Emma.|tA Merciless Place :
The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American
Revolution.|dOxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2011
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