Banishment in the Early Atlantic World: Convicts, Rebels and Slaves

by Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton

Book Overview

Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, Scottish Jacobites, English criminals, Quakers, gypsies, Native Americans, the Acadian French in Canada,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144113011X
• ISBN13: 9781441130112
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"