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Print culture, crime and transportation in the criminal Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2007

GWENDA MORGAN  and
PETER RUSHTON
GWENDA MORGAN
Affiliation:
School of Art, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland.
PETER RUSHTON
Affiliation:
School of Health, Natural and Social Sciences, University of Sunderland.
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Abstract

Stories of transported criminals were exchanged in the print culture of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, creating images of the incorrigibility of transported criminals and of the failures of transportation, with many either re-offending in America or returning to do so in England. This discourse also framed images that each side of the Atlantic had of the other. The British learnt that the plantations were a place of slavery, the Americans that the British viewed them as a ‘race of convicts’. This process, involving many layers of discourse in the criminal Atlantic, formed one of the earliest examples of international debates on crime and national identity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue on Newspaper Reporting of Crime and Justice , May 2007 , pp. 49 - 71
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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