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John Robertson
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On 09/03/2013 5:27 AM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
They shipped the 'criminals' - but not the House of Lords (of the day)
some of whom were descended from pirates, privateers, brigands, etc.
And the crimes that rated transporting? Most often - poverty.
(quoting from Wikipedia)
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were
transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British
government. One of the primary reasons for the British settlement of
Australia was the establishment of a penal colony to alleviate pressure
on their overburdened correctional facilities. Over the 80 years more
than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia.[1]
The number of convicts pales in comparison to the immigrants who arrived
in Australia in the 18511871 gold rush. In 1852 alone, 370,000
immigrants arrived in Australia. By 1871 the total population had nearly
quadrupled from 430,000 to 1.7 million people.[2] The last convicts to
be transported to Australia arrived in Western Australia in 1868.
...
Transportation was a common punishment handed out for both major and
petty crimes in Britain from the seventeenth century until well into the
nineteenth century. At the time it was seen as a more humane alternative
to execution. Around 60,000 convicts were transported to the British
colonies in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
(end quote)
So the US (and probably Canada) were also populated by transported
'criminals'...
John :-#)#
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They shipped the 'criminals' - but not the House of Lords (of the day)
some of whom were descended from pirates, privateers, brigands, etc.
And the crimes that rated transporting? Most often - poverty.
(quoting from Wikipedia)
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convicts were
transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British
government. One of the primary reasons for the British settlement of
Australia was the establishment of a penal colony to alleviate pressure
on their overburdened correctional facilities. Over the 80 years more
than 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia.[1]
The number of convicts pales in comparison to the immigrants who arrived
in Australia in the 18511871 gold rush. In 1852 alone, 370,000
immigrants arrived in Australia. By 1871 the total population had nearly
quadrupled from 430,000 to 1.7 million people.[2] The last convicts to
be transported to Australia arrived in Western Australia in 1868.
...
Transportation was a common punishment handed out for both major and
petty crimes in Britain from the seventeenth century until well into the
nineteenth century. At the time it was seen as a more humane alternative
to execution. Around 60,000 convicts were transported to the British
colonies in North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
(end quote)
So the US (and probably Canada) were also populated by transported
'criminals'...
John :-#)#
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