448 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents
1. Bound for America.--2. Mr Jefferson and Patrick Madan.--3. London in Flames.--4. The 'Best Sacrifices for Death'.--5. Africa.--6. Battle for the Coast.--7. Deserting the Enemy.--8. A Plantation with Slaves.--9. A Mutiny and a Most Peculiar Murder.--10. Trouble at Goree Island.--11. 'Naked and Diseased on the Sandy Shore'.--12. Trying America Again.--13. The Once Mighty Have Fallen.--14. Lemane Island.--15. The End of the African Disaster
Summary
In this book, the author has found the 'missing link' between the American Revolution and The Fatal Shore, and tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales
Analysis
Africa, Western
Colonisation
Deportation
Great Britain
History, 1801-1900
History, Pre-1801
New South Wales
Prisoners
Notes
Also published under the title: A merciless place : the fate of Britain's convicts after the American Revolution. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-427) and index
Notes
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