The English Convict Hulks 1600s - 1868: Transporting Criminals to Australia

by Mick Davis

A history of the hard conditions of the British penal system.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them off to the American colonies to be sold as what amounted to slave labour. All this came to an end with the revolution of 1775 and the legal system was stuck with an ever-increasing army of desperate felons.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139905449X
• ISBN13: 9781399054492
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 224 Pages