The Organization of the Convict Trade to Maryland
Stevenson, Randolph and Cheston, 1768-1775
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3345767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Morgan (0000-0003-0326-6042, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201 |
| Publication date | 1985-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1920428 |
| OpenAlex | W2328853492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
T THE shipping of convicts from Great Britain to the American colonies is a significant yet insufficiently examined aspect of eighteenth-century transatlantic trade. Convict transportation, modestly begun in the seventeenth century, was regulated by the parliamentary statute of I7I7 entitled An Act for the further preventing robbery, burglary, and other felonies, and for the more effectual transportation of felons . .. , 1 which overhauled the criminal code and introduced transportation to the American colonies as the legal sentence for the majority of felons convicted of noncapital crimes against property. The act was intended to deter criminals and to supply the colonies with labor. The penalty for returning early from the sentence was death. Minor laws subsequently reinforced this comprehensive measure by creating new felonies, defining more clearly offenses that would lead to transportation, and attempting to remove felons from the country as quickly as possible. Shipments of convicts were organized mainly in London and Bristol by a few merchant firms that specialized in the trade. These contracting merchants were required to provide security for the proper transportation of felons and to obtain arrival certificates from officials of the colony to which the felons were taken. The Transportation Act of I 7 I 7 thus opened the market for convicts on the western shores of the Atlantic.2
Business · Convict · Criminal Code · Criminal law · Criminal record · Criminology · Minor (academic · Penal code · Political science · Sentence · Sociology · Statute · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law
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Pedlars in the Outports
Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1875
The Global Versus the Local
Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland 1615–1870
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
The Holocaust and New World slavery a comparative history
Mortality on Convict Voyages to Australia, 1788–1868
The Market for Indentured Immigrants
Mortality on immigrant voyages to Australia in the 19th century
The transportation of slaves from Virginia, 1801–1865
Convict Runaways in Maryland, 1745–1775
Perish or Prosper
The Transatlantic Market for British Convict Labor
Legislation, ideology and personal agency in the Western Australian penal colony
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2023 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |