Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877

Gibbs, Martin; Tuffin, Richard; Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish; Roberts, David Andrew; Roe, David; Steele, JN; Hood, Susan; Godfrey, Barry

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.58

Antiquity

2018

DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.58

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Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877

Martin Gibbs¹,

Richard Tuffin²,

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

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Abstract: The ‘Landscapes of Production and Punishment’ project aims to examine how convict labour from 1830–1877 affected the built and natural landscapes of the Tasman Peninsula, as well as the lives of the convicts themselves.

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This article explores the convict-punishment settlement of Port Macquarie on the mid-north coast of New South Wales between 1821 and 1847. Synthesizing previous and new historical and archaeological research, it identifies a range of major and minor sites of labor, accommodation, reform, and punishment within the settlement’s landscape during its period as a restricted convict prison from 1821 to 1830. From this it reconstructs the network of labor provision and infrastructure development, which we argue was not just about making the settlement economically self-sustaining, but also intended to create the framework for a transition to a “free” settlement. To this end this article also examines the ways in which that transformation occurred, with former sites of convict labor and the convicts themselves transitioning from government control to private settlers, until the withdrawal of the government infrastructure for convict management in 1847.

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The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry

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Between 1850 and 1868, a natural experiment in punishment took place. Men convicted of similar crimes could serve their sentence of penal servitude either in Britain or in Australia. For historians and social scientists, this offers the prospect of addressing a key question posed over 200 years ago by the philosopher, penal theorist and reformer Jeremy Bentham when he authored a lengthy letter entitled ‘Panopticon versus New South Wales: Or, the Panopticon Penitentiary System, and the Penal Colonization System, Compared’. This article answers the underlying tenet of Bentham’s question, ‘Which was best prison or transportation?’ by applying two efficiency tests. The first tests whether UK convicts or Australian convicts had higher rates of reconviction, and the second explores the speed to reconviction.

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Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877

Abstract: The ‘Landscapes of Production and Punishment’ project aims to examine how convict labour from 1830–1877 affected the built and natural landscapes of the Tasman Peninsula, as well as the lives of the convicts themselves.

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry

The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry

The convict huts of Parramatta 1788–1841: an archaeological view of the development of an early Australian urban landscape

Prison Versus Western Australia: Which Worked Best, the Australian Penal Colony or the English Convict Prison System?

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