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Page 61
Convicts sentenced to transportation were sold by their gaolers to shipping
contractors who shipped them to the West Indies or the southern American
colonies, where they were sold again to plantation owners who acquired a
property in their ...
Convicts sentenced to transportation were sold by their gaolers to shipping
contractors who shipped them to the West Indies or the southern American
colonies, where they were sold again to plantation owners who acquired a
property in their ...
Page 64
So long as the War of Independence lasted the official policy was to make do with
such expedients as the hulks, until such time as an American surrender permitted
transportation to be renewed. On this the British remained doggedly sanguine.
So long as the War of Independence lasted the official policy was to make do with
such expedients as the hulks, until such time as an American surrender permitted
transportation to be renewed. On this the British remained doggedly sanguine.
Page 92
Some claimed that the greatest benefit of transportation was that it removed the
criminal to a place where he could do no further harm." The interest of the mother
country lay in the reduction of crime and in protecting citizens from harm, while ...
Some claimed that the greatest benefit of transportation was that it removed the
criminal to a place where he could do no further harm." The interest of the mother
country lay in the reduction of crime and in protecting citizens from harm, while ...
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 1 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
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