Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain's Empire

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Usage -- Map of Convict Transportation -- INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF CHAINS -- 1 A HISTORY WITH MANY LINKS -- 2 KIDNAPPERS, SPIRITS AND SOUL DRIVERS -- 3 TRAITORS AND DECEIVERS -- 4 THE BODY TRADE -- 5 A RACE OF CONVICTS -- 6 THI...

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1. Verfasser: Seal, Graham 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Usage -- Map of Convict Transportation -- INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF CHAINS -- 1 A HISTORY WITH MANY LINKS -- 2 KIDNAPPERS, SPIRITS AND SOUL DRIVERS -- 3 TRAITORS AND DECEIVERS -- 4 THE BODY TRADE -- 5 A RACE OF CONVICTS -- 6 THIS SOLITARY WASTE -- 7 CRUEL TYRANNY -- 8 THE DEVIL’S ISLES -- 9 ONE VAST CHARNEL HOUSE -- 10 RIVER OF TEARS -- 11 THE END OF THE CHAIN? -- Timeline -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal system of human bondage which would continue into the twentieth century. Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters, and official documents, Graham Seal uncovers the traumatic struggles of those shipped around the empire. He shows how the earliest large-scale kidnapping and transportation of children to the American colonies were quickly bolstered with shipments of the poor, criminal, and rebellious to different continents, including Australia. From Asia to Africa, this global trade in forced labor allowed Britain to build its colonies while turning a considerable profit. Incisive and moving, this account brings to light the true extent of a cruel strand in the history of the British Empire
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource 24 color illus
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
ISBN:9780300256222
DOI:10.12987/9780300256222

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