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Convicts in the Colonies

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Convicts in the Colonies

By Lucy Williams

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About the book

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia - from the first to the fina...Show more

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ISBN

9781526756312

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Convicts in the Colonies

Format

Paperback

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