The year is 1835, another ship has just arrived at Port Jackson, Sydney with the so far biggest amount of prisoners on bout. The prison general said that some of them were to come and help us with building up the the Harbour of Port Phillips. But I don't know. He also said that last time a convict ship arrived here to the prison Island. I’ve only got approximately one and a half year left as a prisoner and after I’m a free man. I can move back to England, but I probably just stay here and join the other settlers. - Charles May set to jail (7 years) for stealing.
Australia the land of beauty, extreme nature, big coast cities and animals as nowhere else. Actually have a more than less dark past. From 1788 - 1868 roughly 165.000 convicts were transported from overflowed english prisons to Australia, the UK’s answer to Alcatraz. The reason were that you in the UK would be sent to prison, for just about nothing. Instead of being handed a fine you got sent to prison.
The convicts got transported in big convict ships to Australia. But unfortunately a lot of the criminals were already dead when they arrived at the harbours in Australia.
The criminals wasn’t to be sitting on their ass all day in some Australian super prison. No, they were to work hard all day to build up a colony for England in Australia. The way criminal stood out from non criminals,b were their black and yellow uniforms and with a fetter so that they couldn’t escape.
This utilization of the criminals resulted in a fast growing country and society. The prisoners normally stayed in Australia to join the newborn settlement instead of going back to England or where they came from.
Today if you go to Australia and ask people “Why do you live in Australia?” you will frequently get the answer “Because my forefathers were by some how criminals”.
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