Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia by Lucy Williams

Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia

Lucy Williams

224 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology true crime challenging informative medium-paced
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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 sentence...

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