I do not recall how much detail about handling of transported convicts
is in the book, but the standard and very good treatment of this issue
at large is A Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of
British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (Oxford University Press,
1987).
Brent Tarter
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