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The Wretched Prison Ships URL: http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs425a,0,6698945.story Description: Article about how "more Americans died in British prison ships in New York Harbor than in all the battles of the Revolutionary War." Describes conditions on "these floating prisons anchored in Wallabout Bay on the East River for most of the war, and [how] they were sinkholes of filth, vermin, infectious disease and despair." From Newsday. LII Topics: Crime, Prisons Author: DeWan, George Publisher: Newsday, Inc. LII Database Information: Record 22787 created by Maria Brandt on 10/23/2006 Last modification on 10/23/2006 Published: 10/26/2006 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22787 |
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