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Child Convicts

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A stark and intriguing portrayal of life for the youngest convicts who populated the Australian colonies more than two hundred years ago.

At the age of seven, children in eighteenth-century Britain were tried in court like adults. For crimes such as picking pockets or stealing clothes, they might be sentenced to death by hanging or transported to the then-perilous and isolated colonies of Australia. Life in the colonies was once continuously as difficult and dangerous as the poverty from which the various convicts came, but the dreaded sentence of transportation could also present opportunities. In a captivating volume filled with historical photos and drawings, as of late’s young readers can believe anecdotes of youthful prisoners from long ago, whose new lives at the shores of Australia ran the gamut from the boy who became the first person hanged on its soil to the girl whose photo is now at the twenty-dollar note. Back matter features a glossary, bibliography, index, and internet resources.


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