American Citizens, British Slaves
Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850
$77.42
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
4 August 1998
Summary
We hardly had our feet on the soil, when almost the first objects that greeted our vision were gibbets, and men toiling in the most abject misery, looking more degraded even than so many dumb beasts. Such sights, and the supposition that such might be our fate, served to sink the iron still deeper in our souls.This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land in 1839-40.As members of the Patriot Army that had conducted borde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522850277 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522850278 |
| Author: | Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Cassandra Pybus |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 4 August 1998 |
| Weight: | 478g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 159mm x 17mm |
About The Author
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Cassandra Pybus is ARC Senior Fellow in History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. Her previous books include Community of Thieves; Gross Moral Turpitude; White Rajah- A Dynastic Intrigue; Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree; The Devil and James McAuley (which won the 2000 Adelaide Festival Award for non-fiction), and Raven Road. During 2002 Pybus will be a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington DC.Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a lecturer in the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. He has published many influential articles on convict history and is a contributor to Written on the Body, Convict Love Tokens and Representing Convicts. With Lucy Frost he edited Chain Letters- Narrating Convict Lives (MUP 2001).
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