Surviving Convict Life in Colonial Australia

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In this video I want to take a closer a look at the fate of convicts sent to New South Wales in the early colonial period. In my video the Birth of Australia it was Arthur Phillip and other officers who took centre stage of the history; here I want a convict’s eye view. In particular, I want to shed light on who the convicts actually were, and I want to consider some assumptions about the brutality of convict life. When we think of “penal colony”, we think of suffering, forced labour, the lash; and these elements form part of the historical memory of the settling of Australia. But what if I told you that life in early colonial Australia could actually be pretty good? Let's take a look at Australian history together.

Sources:
Convict Society and its Enemies, J. B. Hirst
Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past, Stephen Nicholas
Great Convict Stories, Graham Seal
Australian Dictionary of Biography

Music:
'The Shores of New South Wales' by Norcsalordie, lyrics McHugh, tune Neal
www.norcsalordie.com