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prisoners weren?t all complain;/This be my task ?
shoved in one big ungenerous Britons
under deck room you,/Conspire to murder those
like many slave you can?t subdue? "-Philip
boats did, but there Freneau (Prisoners of War).
were cells called Outcome of Prisoners
brigs that soldiers
guarded. Aboard the During the war there were
first ship the British lots of captures on both sides,
Pr isoner s of t he used for resulting in packed jail cells or
transporting, the
prisoner exchanges. Still, the
soldiers were prisons were often packed with
Rev ol ut ionar y War allowed nothing but prisoners. The ones holding the
their clothing and
prisoners saw that the prisons
bedding and they
were too packed and they had
The conditions prisoners of the Revolutionary War in By Spencer Crawford weren't given any an idea to kill the prisoners to
terms of comfort, food, and health. medical attention. make some room, but they
The men on this ship
Imagine you are a British control of. These cells were bread was thrown to the didn?t want to do it themselves
decided to set the
soldier guarding prisoners on a always very crowded from the prisoners. Prisoners got their because of the mess. So, they
ship on fire just
ship during the Revolutionary results of each rations twice a because they thought they would let them
War. They are begging at your battle, so Also, week: one-half thought that the die of starvation, disease, or the
feet for food. What do you do? sometimes they pound of biscuit, rations they were cold (Anderson, 312, 234). After
Now they are wanting blankets were transported one half pound of given and the other they died they would be put in
and new clothing. Would you back to England raw pork, one-half treatments were a hole with lots of other dead
rather let them die from in prison ships, pint of peas, worse that dying in a prisoners piled, so it was pretty
hunger and from the cold, but how were one-half gill of rice, fire (Rastatter). One rough. In early America, it was
heavy of disease air? Now they those and a half ounce of American prisoner both American and British law
are suffering so much they ask conditions? butter. This was too wrote a poem that officers of the army that
you to shoot them or let them The Prison Quality little, for everyone describing the most were prisoners were not
jump overboard. But you won?t had to share this. They were garbage to the Americans and infamous prison ship in which confined to a prison (Lynch).
because you have a cold heart Sometimes the prisons of also allowed one fire every three they made fun of them he stayed in, the Jersey. The
of stone. the Revolutionary War weren?t days on which to cook their raw (Rastatter). poem went, "The various
even prisons. Samuel Young food. Lastly, the guards were horrors of these hulks to
During the war there were The Prison Ships
recalled being put into a stable very mean to the prisoners, tell/These Prison-ships where
lots of failures and captures of
with 500 other men as prisoners mostly the guards on the British The conditions of a prison pain and sorrow dwell;/Where
prisoners for both sides. The
and he said that bread was side. Samuel Young informed boat were not good, as one ship death in tenfold vengeance
prisoners that were captured
thrown to them. Mouldy, that guards would sell old beef held around 170 prisoners and holds his reign,/And injur?d
were put in the jail cells of the
crumbly, broken maggotty bones and other types of all of the soldiers and crew. The ghosts, in reason?s ear
town that the other side has
