Emigrants in Chains Genealogy Book

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Untitled Document
Emigrants in Chains
Peter Wilson Coldham
Volume of
196
pages in excellent condition. Per The publisher;
Few colonizing powers can have relied so heavily and consistently on the  wholesale deportation of their prison population as did England through  two-and-a-half centuries of imperial expansion. By the time America made her  Declaration of Independence in 1776, the prisons of England had disgorged some  50,000 of their inmates to the colonies, most of them destined to survive and,  with their descendants, to populate the land of their exile.
In a story largely untold until now--certainly never told as well--Coldham's  groundbreaking study demonstrates once and for all that the recruitment of labor  for the American colonies was achieved in large measure through the emptying of  English jails, workhouses, brothels, and houses of correction. Supported by a  massive array of documentary evidence and first-hand testimony, the book focuses  on the emergence and use of transportation as a means of dealing with an  unwanted population, dwelling at length on the processes involved, the men  charged with the administration of the system of transportation or engaged in  transportation as a business, then proceeding with a fascinating look at the  transportees themselves, their lives and hapless careers, and their reception in  the colonies. The whole unhappy saga of enforced transportation is here  recounted with such force and eloquence that it is bound to set some popular  notions about the peopling of the American colonies on their head.
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