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"Vagrants"
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vagrancy
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unemployed
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connotations
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colonies
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criminal
Able-bodied people who were unemployed (generally without a master). Vagrancy Acts were passed to control the unemployed. Vagrants could face criminal charges, and be pressed into military service or transported to the colonies.
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people who go about with no fixed place to live; a term with negative connotations
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