‘The Ferringees are flying—the ship is ours!’: The convict middle passage in colonial South and Southeast Asia, 1790–1860

The Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-186

  Anderson, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/001946460504200201     Document Type: Article

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