Convicts - The Story of the Penal Settlements
Weston Joel
Publication Date:
1 May 2012
Format:
Paperback / softback
ISBN 9780864271211
The story of modern Australia’s beginnings is inextricably linked to 160,000 people who came to this land as convicts. Here we see how a nation was founded not on free settlement or immigration, but by criminal offenders who were transported to a ‘land beyond the sea’ where many went on to create new lives for themselves.
Follow the story of greed, brutality, inhumanity, and occasional decency as a small group of people learn to cope with an environment utterly alien to them.
This is how Australia grew into a prosperous nation from the cheap labour of so many hapless convicts who had little say in their destiny.
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