The Convict Era in Van Diemen's Land

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"Harsh British justice despatched felons to the other side of the world .... and provided a reluctant workforce for the early settlers. Van Diemen's Land received many thousands of convicts - all consigned to virtual slavery under embattled colonial administrators. Despite overwhelming odds, bushrangers and a distant executive government , the fledgling colony of Van Diemen's Land became established as an English look-alike land of rural estates, grand buildings and high society - ridding the stain of it's convict roots, to become 'Tasmania' after the cessation of transportation in 1853. Renowned Tasmanian artist, illustrator and author David Hopkins, has complied a graphic and fascinating insight in pictures and text of Tasmania's notorious and infamous convict era."--Back cover.

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