Eighteenth-century criminal transportation : the formation of the criminal Atlantic /Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton.

"This study examines the way that thousands of convicts were sent from the regions when circuit judges and county authorities adopted the penalty after 1718. As transportation became more common, so did the necessity of organizing regular shipments to America. Every region developed a transatlantic traffic in convicts, thus creating a criminal Atlantic alongside that of slaves and servants."--Dust jacket.