Dr. Gwenda Morgan is Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, UK, and Peter Rushton is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. Together they have published Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718-1800 (UCL Press, 1998), The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon (Surtees Society 2000, vol. 205, The Boydell Press), and Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (Palgrave, 2003).

• List of MapsAcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionPart I – Diverse Patterns of Banishment in Britain and Ireland1. Origins of English Judicial Banishment up to 17182. The Distinctive Character of Scottish Banishment 3. Religious Persecutions and Banishment – Quakers in Seventeenth-Century England and New England4.Rebellions and Banishment: Ireland, Scotland and England, 1649-885. The Eighteenth-Century Jacobite Risings Part II – Continuity and Change: British North America and the Caribbean6. Banishment and Criminal Transportation in the 18th-century Atlantic7. The Acadians: A People Without a Voice8. ‘Arbitrary Unjust and Illegal’: Philadelphia Quakers on the Virginia Frontier, 1777-17789. ‘Strangers and Prisoners in a Strange Land: St Augustine, 1780-8110. The Transported Beggars of St Eustatius, 1781ConclusionsIndex

[T]his work shows the wider context and deeper roots of the phenomenon of mass convict transportations in the British Empire with which we are familiar … Some questions are perhaps not fully answerable, but this book is valuable among other reasons because it helps to raise them.

Dr. Gwenda Morgan is Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, UK, and Peter Rushton is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. Together they have published Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718-1800 (UCL Press, 1998), The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon (Surtees Society 2000, vol. 205, The Boydell Press), and Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (Palgrave, 2003).

• List of MapsAcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionPart I – Diverse Patterns of Banishment in Britain and Ireland1. Origins of English Judicial Banishment up to 17182. The Distinctive Character of Scottish Banishment 3. Religious Persecutions and Banishment – Quakers in Seventeenth-Century England and New England4.Rebellions and Banishment: Ireland, Scotland and England, 1649-885. The Eighteenth-Century Jacobite Risings Part II – Continuity and Change: British North America and the Caribbean6. Banishment and Criminal Transportation in the 18th-century Atlantic7. The Acadians: A People Without a Voice8. ‘Arbitrary Unjust and Illegal’: Philadelphia Quakers on the Virginia Frontier, 1777-17789. ‘Strangers and Prisoners in a Strange Land: St Augustine, 1780-8110. The Transported Beggars of St Eustatius, 1781ConclusionsIndex

[T]his work shows the wider context and deeper roots of the phenomenon of mass convict transportations in the British Empire with which we are familiar … Some questions are perhaps not fully answerable, but this book is valuable among other reasons because it helps to raise them.

Dr. Gwenda Morgan is Visiting Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, UK, and Peter Rushton is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. Together they have published Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law: The Problem of Law Enforcement in North-East England, 1718-1800 (UCL Press, 1998), The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon (Surtees Society 2000, vol. 205, The Boydell Press), and Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (Palgrave, 2003).

• List of MapsAcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionPart I – Diverse Patterns of Banishment in Britain and Ireland1. Origins of English Judicial Banishment up to 17182. The Distinctive Character of Scottish Banishment 3. Religious Persecutions and Banishment – Quakers in Seventeenth-Century England and New England4.Rebellions and Banishment: Ireland, Scotland and England, 1649-885. The Eighteenth-Century Jacobite Risings Part II – Continuity and Change: British North America and the Caribbean6. Banishment and Criminal Transportation in the 18th-century Atlantic7. The Acadians: A People Without a Voice8. ‘Arbitrary Unjust and Illegal’: Philadelphia Quakers on the Virginia Frontier, 1777-17789. ‘Strangers and Prisoners in a Strange Land: St Augustine, 1780-8110. The Transported Beggars of St Eustatius, 1781ConclusionsIndex

[T]his work shows the wider context and deeper roots of the phenomenon of mass convict transportations in the British Empire with which we are familiar … Some questions are perhaps not fully answerable, but this book is valuable among other reasons because it helps to raise them.