TY - BOOK AU - Ziegler,Edith Miriam ED - Project Muse. TI - Harlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women: crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 T2 - Atlantic crossings SN - 9780817387495 AV - HV9644 .Z54 2014 U1 - 364.3/74097309033 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Penal transportation KW - Maryland KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Women prisoners KW - Great Britain KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social change, crime, and the law -- Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile -- Bound for Maryland -- Arrival in the New World -- Servants and masters -- Escape -- Going home and staying on -- Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue -- Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women -- Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations -- Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615 -- Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718 -- Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776 -- Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817387495/ ER -