American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850 by Cassandra Pybus, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850

Cassandra Pybus, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

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nonfiction history
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In 1840, eighty-two Americans were transported from Canada to a life of penal servitude half a world away in Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania. As members of the Patriot Army that had conducted border raids into the colony of Upper Canada in 1838, t...

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