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This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas.

Convicts and Orphans

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/02/2002
      ISBN13: 9780804733595, 978-0804733595
      ISBN10: 0804733597

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas.

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