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Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be similtaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, |||Scottish Jacobites, Emnglish 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 book explores the legal and political development of this forced migration focusing on the British Atlantic world between 1600 and 1800 to establish to what extent displacement, exile and removal were funamental to the early British Empire.
Author(s): Morgan G, Rushton P
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Year: 2013
Number of Pages: 309
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Place Published: London
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781441106544
