Banishment in the early Atlantic world : convicts, rebels and slaves /
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, contai...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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, rebellious African slaves, or vulnerable minorities like the Jews of St. Eustatius, were among those expelled and banished to another place. This. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 309 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441155016 1441155015 |
