Banishment in the Early Atlantic World: Convicts, Rebels and Slaves

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Diverse Patterns of Banishment in Britain and Ireland
	Chapter 1 The origins of English judicial banishment
		Before the civil wars: The first colonies and the development of criminal transportation
		The civil wars and the Interregnum
		Pardon and criminal transportation after the restoration
	Chapter 2 The distinctive character of Scottish banishment
		The Kirk and the local state
		Targets of Scottish banishment
		‘Ethnic cleansing’ before the name: Scottish policies towards gypsies, vagabonds and others
		Highlanders
		The Burghs and the Justiciary: Levels of banishment in Scotland
	Chapter 3 Religious persecutions and banishment
		Interregnum origins
		New England
		Restoration England
		Trials – 1664–5
		Towards respectability
	Chapter 4 Rebellion in Ireland, England and Scotland 1649–88
		Ireland
		Rounding them up
		Selection of the transported
		In the West Indies
		Survivors
		Cromwellian banishment of rebels
		Barbados narratives
		Covenanters and Rebellion 1660–85
		A martyr’s story: Alexander Peden
		The Western martyrs of 1685
	Chapter 5 The Eighteenth-century Jacobite risings
		The two risings
		The 1715 rising
		The 1745 rising
		Stories of Jacobite resistance and survival
Part 2 Continuity and Change: British North America and the Caribbean
	Chapter 6 Banishment and criminal transportation in the British Atlantic World
		Religious expulsions in the colonies
		Expulsion of the Jews from Barbados
		Political expulsions
		Native Americans
		King Philip’s War 1675–6
		The case of the Nanziattico People, Virginia 1704–5
		The Yamasee War 1715–16
		New subjects for transportation: Slaves
		Slave conspiracies
		The second Maroon War and the case of the Maroons of Trelawny Town 1795–6
		Criminal transportation
		‘Felons of distinction’, ‘Felons of inferior note’ or ‘the common sort’
		The Atlantic colonies
	Chapter 7 The Acadians: A people without a voice?
		The military context
		Removal
		New England colonies
		Maryland
		South Carolina
		Georgia
		The French Neutrals in England
		Sickness
		Work
		Laws of nations
		The French grab
	Chapter 8 ‘Arbitrary, unjust and illegal’: Philadelphia Quakers on the Virginia frontier, 1777–8
		Arrests
		Council refuses to hear the prisoners in person
		The remonstrance of Pemberton, Hunt and Pleasants
		To the President and Council of Pennsylvania: remonstrance of the subscribers . . . now confined in the Free Mason’s Lodge
		An Address to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania
		Third remonstrance to the President and Council of Pennsylvania
		Preparations for the journey
		Leaving Philadelphia
		The journey
		Arriving at Winchester
		Remonstrance to Congress
		Life in Winchester
		Easing of restrictions
		Accommodation
		Sickness and death
		Escapes
		The women left behind
		Hostility to the Quakers
	Chapter 9 ‘Strangers and prisoners in a strange land’, St. Augustine 1780–1
		Banishment
		The prisoners
		Moultrie’s Intercession
		Departure
		The journey
		The parole
		More detainees
		Accommodation
		Food
		Family and friends
		Mockery
		News
		Presbyterian versus Anglican
		Washington, Clinton and The Law of Nations
		Exchange/non-exchange
		The return
		A second removal
		Reunion
	Chapter 10 The transported beggars of St Eustatius
		The golden rock
		An American lifeline
		‘Not properly a colony’
		Rodney’s orders
		Lambert Blair on the assault on St Eustatius
		Proclamations
		The Jewish community on St Eustatius
		The Jews
		Samuel Hoheb
		The reaction
		The backlash
		The pursuit of Rodney’s instructions
		Burke’s speech in the House of Commons, 14 May 1781
		Aftermath
		Burke’s speech, 4 December 1781
		Reflections
		National honour
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index