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THE TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS, INDENTURED SERVANTS, ORPHANS, AND DISSIDENTS TO THE AMERICAN COLONIES: THE OTHER SLAVE TRADE

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Pages:120
ISBN:1-4955-0989-3
978-1-4955-0989-6
Price:$119.95
Dr. Thomas E. Jordan identifies a range of practices and policies by which prisoners, indentured servants, and others were relocated to the American colonies. He discusses what some of the motivations for such practices were as well as aspects of the cultural context supporting them. "Transporting prisoners to the colonies provided domestic relief for local authorities while, nominally, increasing the population base for the colonies."... "In the era, the noun transport meant a convict, and also a ship."

Table of Contents

Chapter One- The Course of Immigrant Lives: To North America in the Early Modern Era
Emigrants and Immigrants
Data
Immigration
Quality of Life
Segregation and Integration
Parsing Biographical Quality of Life
Chapter Two- Archival and Multivariate Modelling of Quality in Immigrant Lives
Archival Data
Emigration
Death
Outward Bound
Migration
Quality of Life
A New Beginning
Developing an Inner Sense of Quality
Segregation and Integration
Multivariate Analysis of Data
Tsar
Evaluation
Chapter Three- Convicts Transported to the Isle of Virginie: Their Sentences
Introduction
Data
Circumstances
Social Class and the Law
Mischance
Quality of Life
Postscript
References
Index