ABSTRACT
This chapter, by concentrating on blacks as criminals, Antipodean transportees, victims of and witnesses to crime, offers information on a broad stratum of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century society hitherto neglected by historians. There is no intention to criminalize black people; on the contrary, the results of the survey suggest that black crime (despite the transient nature of a sector of the black population) conformed to patterns discernible in the white *host' society, displaying broadly similar age, sex and occupational structures among black and white criminals and transportees.
