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Category Archives: 5. In the New World

Transported Convicts in the New World: On the Plantations

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. Convict transportation raised important issues of identity and freedom for the convict, the plantation owner, and the other servants. Once on the plantation, convicts had to renegotiate their social position. They suddenly found themselves bound to a fellow Englishman who […]

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Transported Convicts in the New World: Adjusting to America

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. Most of the transported convicts who ended up in Virginia lived north of the York River, mainly in the Northern Neck between the Rappahannock and the Potomac Rivers. About three quarters of Maryland’s convict population lived in four of the […]

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Transported Convicts in the New World: Moll Flanders and Moll King

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. While the American press criticized the practice of British convict transportation, Daniel Defoe enthusiastically supported it in his novel The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Moll Flanders is the most well-known character in literature to have been […]

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Transported Convicts in the New World: The Reaction of the American Colonies

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. That the British policy of transporting convicts to America was not well received by colonists should come as no surprise to anyone. American colonists complained that Britain was using their land as a dumping ground for their undesirables in the […]

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Transported Convicts in the New World: The Buyers of Convicts

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies. Convicts from Great Britain made up the largest number of forced immigrants from Europe to America in the eighteenth century, with kidnapping victims and forced political exiles trailing far behind. One of the ideas behind the creation of convict transportation […]

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