Convicts: Transportation & Australia

CONVICTS explores some of the issues surrounding the banishment of thousands of convict men, women and children to Australia. It provides discussion and documentation on many transportation-era topics such as convict labour and skills, prisoners’ diets, the role of the British military in the penal settlement, the Female Factory system, the difficulties of forming and maintaining a family under the convict system and the bitter struggle to bring convict transportation to this sea-bound continent to an end. With an evocative new cover and including a foreword by the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, this publication is among the first to explore the nation’s criminal past on a national scale.
Revised ed. Paperback wide trade (with flaps), very good condition, black & white photos & drawings. This revised book, originally written to accompany the 1999 Convicts exhibition at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney, looks at some of the issues around the banishment of thousands of convict men, women and children to Australia. Some of the convict topics covered are: labour and skills, diet of prisoners, the British military’s role in the penal settlement, the Female Factory system, the difficulties of forming a family under the system, and the bitter struggle to end convict transportation to Australia. One of the first books to look at Australia’s criminal past on a national scale.
xiii, 112 p. : ill., plans. ; 21 cm. #110222