DETAILED NOTES ON FREMANTLE PRISON

Detailed Notes on fremantle prison

While the Swan River Colony was recognized like a "free of charge settlement"[22] (as opposed to the penal colonies around the east Coastline), by the 1840s demand from customers for cheap labour overcame an early reluctance, along with the colony agreed to simply accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the 1st convict ship Scindian on tw

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