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It has been said by a distinguished Melbourne littémteur that the pages which record the penal chapters of Australian history should be turned down. 7c cannot turn them down if we would. The Transporta tion System has knitted itself into the fibres of our national being. There is notasingle Australasian province (and this includes Victoria, South Australia and Maori land) whose character was left unvitiated by the methods England adopted for the disposal of the criminals she had bred in three provinces the existing legal systems bear the marks of the convict-mould in which they were fashioned in two, peculiar land-tenures obtain which, the corollary of the conditions of penal settlement, blight the whole population today. The convict past of Australia cannot be shut out of sight. N 0 man can put his finger on the date when it ended, for the reason that it glided imperceptibly into the vigorous and splendid, if still imperfect, present.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a series of true stories that the author gleaned from a long study of Australian history. The tales, published weekly over two years in a popular magazine, provide a glimpse into the first-hand accounts of the harsh lives, resilience, and suffering endured by convicts in Australia. The author's goal is to share some of the stories that have been forgotten in the telling of Australian history. Many of the convicts transported to Australia had little to no criminal record, sentenced to live under inhumane conditions as a way to rid the British Isles of their surplus population. The system devised to manage them was rife with cruelty and corruption, as evidenced in these accounts of convicts' lives. The book contends that the penal system profoundly shaped the national character of Australia, its social fabric, and its laws. The author argues that these stories deserve a place in the broader contexts of Australian literature and history, even as the convict chapters of the country's past are increasingly 'turned down.' This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780259611226_0
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