the extraordinary true story of an eighteenth-century ship and its cargo of female convicts
Draws from court documents, letters, and journals to tell the story of the 237 women convicts, most petty criminals, who sailed from England to Sydney Cove in Australia's New South Wales in July 1789 to provide the colony's men with sexual favors and children, focusing on the relationship between convict Sarah Whitelam and the ship's steward John Nicol.
