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From The Publisher. 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 The Atlantic. The Revolution Interrupted This Flow And Inspired Two Entrepreneurs To Organize The Criminals Into Military Units To Fight For The Crown. The Felon Soldiers Went To West Africa's Slave-trading Posts Just As The War Ended; These Forts Became The New Destination For England's Rapidly Multiplying Convicts. The Move Was A Disaster. Christopher Writes That Before The Scheme Was Abandoned, It Would Have Run The Gamut Of Piracy, Treachery, Mutiny, Starvation, Poisonings, Allegations Of White Women Forced To Prostitute Themselves To African Men, And Not Least Several

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Author

Emma Christopher

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199782550

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Fiction