TRANSPORTED Tales of Misfortune and Roguery

by Brian Harrison-Lever

"TRANSPORTED: Tales of Misfortune and Roguery".

The overcrowding of British prisons in the early 1800s was a problem solved, the ruling classes believed, by the transportation of convicts to the colonies, where labour was in short supply. Men, women and children branded 'felons' were shipped south, often for crimes that in today's world would hardly merit a firm reprimand.

Those transported - some unfrortunate,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 064802864X
• ISBN13: 9780648028642
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Forty South Publishing
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"