Public Employment and Assignment to Private Masters, 1788–1821

Dyster, Barrie

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139084840.011

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“…Government time ended at midday on Saturday, for example, and did not commence again until sunrise on the Monday morning. 101 Convicts were encouraged to work after government hours in the private sector in order to pay for their lodgings. Before the completion of Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney in 1819 there was little government accommodation for prisoners, most of whom rented rooms in the private sector.…”

Section: Australia 1787-1868mentioning

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Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1875

Maxwell-Stewart¹

2018

A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies

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Section: Australia 1787-1868mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1875

Maxwell-Stewart¹

2018

A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies

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“…Later in his governorship and in the interregnum that followed his departure from the colony in 1792, the practice developed under which the governors transferred their property interest in most of these Crown servants' labor to private masters, including former convicts. 74 Soon after the arrival of each new batch of convicts, the gover-nors who succeeded Phillip distributed them without charge as an economic resource, frequently receiving requests for certain kinds of convict servants. They also distributed land, tools, and equipment from the government store.…”

Section: Transportation To New South Wales and Van Diemen's Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perish or Prosper: The Law and Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1700–1850

Kercher¹

2003

Law hist. rev.

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For over 150 years from the early eighteenth century, convict transportation was a primary method of punishing serious crime in Britain and Ireland. Convicts were first sent to the colonies in North America and the Caribbean and then to three newly established Australian colonies on the other side of the world. Conditions were very different between the two locations, yet the fundamental law of transportation remained the same for decades after the process began in Australia.

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Section: Transportation To New South Wales and Van Diemen's Landmentioning

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Many Laws, Many Legalities

Kercher¹

2003

Law hist. rev.

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Peter Karsten asks why there might be a greater comparative propensity among CANZ historians than among those of the United States. Part of the reason may lie in the legal education many of us in Australia received, and in the formal legal status of many commonwealth countries until recently. As recently as the early 1970s, Australian law students were taught that English law was as significant as that made in the Australian courts. Appeals from the Australian Supreme Courts to the Privy Council were finally abolished only in 1986. From that time onward, there was a drive within the law schools to find differences from England, to look toward comparisons with other places than England.

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Public Employment and Assignment to Private Masters, 1788–1821

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Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1875

Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615–1875

Perish or Prosper: The Law and Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1700–1850

Many Laws, Many Legalities

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