Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 - 1868Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg
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... Skirving , Joseph Gerrald and Maurice Margarot . Like Muir all were educated , professional men . Palmer was a minister of religion who had attended Eton and studied arts and divinity at Cambridge . Skirving grew up in a prosperous ...
... Skirving and Gerrald would die shortly after arrival , while Muir and Palmer would perish journeying back - Palmer from illness and Muir from wounds inflicted in battle . The story of the Scottish Martyrs was in many ways typical ...
... Skirving gathered to discuss and assay the problems of the day. A radical community hungry for political change had emerged among the country's best and brightest. From the outset this belief in political liberty came up hard against an ...
... Skirving at his trial that ' sedition ... [ is ] violating the peace and order of society ' , but ' when sedition has a tendency to overturn the constitution of this country it borders upon high treason'.66 Were the Martyrs really the ...
... Skirving had also trained for the church , before making his career in academia and farming . Christian evangelicals found vindication for social justice and the equality of all people in the Gospels . Protestantism also provided ...
Contents
The Rebels of 1798 in Ireland and Australia | |
British Rebels of Field and Factory | |
Canadian Revolutionaries in Exile | |
Transported Martyrs and the Making of a Nation | |
Traces of Liberty | |
Bibliography | |
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Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 - 1868 Tony Moore Limited preview - 2010 |
Death Or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 Tony Moore No preview available - 2010 |