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Re: A perspective on the Revolutionary generation
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2010, 09:50:22 AM »
Did they send prison ships to the Americas? Because 3/4 of my lineage likely came over on one of those.

I don't think so. Georgia was supposed to be a refuge for debtors and other poor people, but it didn't quite work out that way.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/colonial/georgia/georgia.html
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Re: A perspective on the Revolutionary generation
« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2010, 02:29:49 AM »
lots of indentured servants, probably lots of folks on the run but no prison ships ( afaik )
like Botany Bay.
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Re: A perspective on the Revolutionary generation
« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2010, 11:29:23 AM »
lots of indentured servants, probably lots of folks on the run but no prison ships ( afaik )
like Botany Bay.

Lots of Highlanders forcibly exported after the Jacobite rebellions, and during the Clearances later.  Some of those went to slave labor on tobacco farms in the Carolinas.
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Re: A perspective on the Revolutionary generation
« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2010, 01:33:49 AM »
really!! I had no idea, are you sure they were not indentured servants?
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Re: A perspective on the Revolutionary generation
« Reply #29 on: October 19, 2010, 09:46:58 AM »
Google "white slavery" etc
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Re: A perspective on the Revolutionary generation
« Reply #30 on: October 19, 2010, 11:40:11 AM »
Also, ever read Stevenson's Kidnapped! ?
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it.  - Ursula Le Guin