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Shaping Australia: Convicts (PB)
Author: Matthew Williams
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| Retail Price: | $19.95 |
| Betabooks Price | $4.95 |
ISBN: 9780864154897
Format: Paperback
Published: September 2005
Published By: Watts Publishing
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Published: September 2005
Published By: Watts Publishing
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Product Description
Transportation was first used as an alternative to capital punishment (execution) in 1680 during the reign of King Charles II. When it was formalised in 1717 by the Transportation Act, it carried a fourteen-year term. Judges sentenced people to death, recommended mercy, and the King commuted the sentece to transportation.