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Q: History of English convict colonies ( Answered,   2 Comments )
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Subject: History of English convict colonies
Category: Reference, Education and News > Education
Asked by: jhballar-ga
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Posted: 01 May 2004 13:03 PDT
Expires: 31 May 2004 13:03 PDT
Question ID: 339494
Were more convicts sent to Georgia or to Australia?
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Subject: Re: History of English convict colonies
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 02 May 2004 02:28 PDT
 
Dear JH Ballar, 

More convicts were sent to Australia, like the two commentators suggested. 

More than 160,000 convicts were sent to Australia, in comparison to "only" about 
55,000 convicts sent to North America. 

Sources: 
Dan Byrnes, "Notes on a new project: on merchant history", in: _The
Blackheath Connection_ (WebSite e-Book),
<http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/article3.htm>.

Stop the Crime, "Early Prisons" <http://www.stoptheaca.org/early.html> 

Robert Smith, "A superb history of Australia's founding" (A review of
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes), World Socialist WebSite,
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/fat-j25.shtml> - very
interesting article.

Australian Convicts Database <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5517> 

Search terms: 
"convicts sent to australia/georgia"

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Subject: Re: History of English convict colonies
From: probonopublico-ga on 01 May 2004 13:06 PDT
 
Australia.

(This is only a guess.)
Subject: Re: History of English convict colonies
From: pinkfreud-ga on 01 May 2004 13:12 PDT
 
"The transportation of convicts to Australia was the largest
involuntary migration of western people in modern history."

http://sscl.berkeley.edu/arf/newsletter/3.2/ross.html

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