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020 _a9780817387495
020 _a0817387498
020 _z9780817318260 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
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_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aHV9644
_b.Z54 2014
082 0 0 _a364.3/74097309033
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100 1 _aZiegler, Edith Miriam,
_d1944-
245 1 0 _aHarlots, hussies, and poor unfortunate women
_h[electronic resource] :
_bcrime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 /
_cEdith M. Ziegler.
260 _aTuscaloosa :
_bUniversity of Alabama Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490 0 _aAtlantic crossings
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aList 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aPenal transportation
_zMaryland
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aWomen prisoners
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y18th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817387495/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c29335
_d29335