Britain's Transatlantic Colonists

Britain’s American colonies were widely thought to be peopled by miscreants and ‘desperate villains’. Rachel Christian describes the reality for those who found a new life across the Atlantic.

Convicts from Newgate Prison being taken for transportation, c.1760

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