In Part 1 of a three part bonus series, we discuss the use of prison hulks with an emphasis on their role in the American Revolution.

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Sources:

Bowden, Mary W. "In Search of Freneau's Prison Ships." Early American Literature, vol. 14, no. 2, Fall 1979, pp. 174 - 192.

Cray, Robert E. "The Horror of These Hulks." Naval History, 2006

Freneau, Philip. "The British Prison Ship."

 Freneau, Philip. "To Lord Cornwallis."

Ranlet, Philip. "In the Hands of the British: the Treatment of Americans POWs During the War of Independence." The Historian, vol. 62, no. 4, 2000, pp. 731 - 758. 

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