Convict-era Port Arthur : Misery of the Deepest Dye

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   Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes. Charles O’Hara Booth, a significant commandant of Port Arthur; Mark Jeffrey, a convict who became the grave digger on the Island of the Dead; and William Thompson, who arrived just as the new probation system started and worked in the treacherous coal mines. Sourced from the detailed records held in archives at Hobart, Convict-era Port Arthur will for the first time provide a comprehensive history of Port Arthur, its horrors and its changing role over a fifty-year period. In gripping detail, using the experiences and words of the convicts, soldiers and administrators who spent time there, David W. Cameron brings to life these deeply miserable days.

• 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm First Edition #020923 Includes bibliographical references ([411]-419) and index.
• Part 1. Before Port Arthur
• Part 2. Port Arthur 1827 to 1840 (Early days)
• Part 3. Port Arthur 1841 to 1853 (the probation system)
• Part 4. Port Arthur 1854 to 1877 (Post transportation)
• Epilogue
• Notes.
• Booth, Charles O’Hara, 1800-1851
• Jeffrey, Mark, 1825-1903
• Thompson, William
• Prisoners — Australia — Social conditions — 19th century
• Convicts — Australia — History
• Prisoners — Tasmania — Social conditions — 19th century
• Convicts — Tasmania — Port Arthur — History
• Prisoners — Australia — Social conditions
• Convicts — Australia — Social conditions
• Penal colonies — Australia — History
• Convicts — Tasmania — Port Arthur (Tas.) — History
• Penal colonies — Tasmania — History
• Port Arthur (Tas.) — History
• Australian