Convict assignment was the practice used in many penal colonies of assigning convicts to work for private individuals. Contemporary abolitionists characterised...
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prison hulks Convict assignment Convict era of Western Australia Convict hulk Convict ships to New South Wales Convict ships to Tasmania Convicts on the West...
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also sent convicts to New Caledonia and to Devil's Island in French Guiana. Convicted felon Conviction Convict lease Convict assignment Convicts in Australia...
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Penal transportation (redirect from Convict system)
the Arts. 25 June 2008. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013. "Convict Assignment – National Library of Australia". National Library of Australia. Archived...
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is that the Parkhurst apprentices were convicts, and that their apprenticeships constituted convict assignment. Serious lobbying for Western Australia...
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Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States before it was formally abolished during...
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prior to leaving England..." Robbins, W.M. review of Gill's (2004) Convict Assignment at "| Book Review | Labour History, 88 | the History Cooperative"...
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Founders and Survivors (section Convict records)
details of convict assignment to free settlers. The project relied on the mass-digitisation of over 100,000 images, manual transcription of the convict records...
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Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787–1868) in order to develop...
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David Nangle (category Massachusetts politicians convicted of corruption)
David M. Nangle (born December 18, 1960) is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2020. He is a...
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abolished altogether in 1840. The lack of manual labourers from the convict assignment system led to an increase demand for foreign labour, which was partly...
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vexatious Replevins of Distresses taken for Rent. The words "provided the assignment be duly stamped before any action be brought thereupon." 36 Geo. 3. c...
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altogether in 1840.[citation needed] The lack of manual labourers from the convict assignment system led to an increase demand for foreign labour, which was partly...
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The Castle Hill convict rebellion was a convict rebellion in Castle Hill, Sydney, then part of the British colony of New South Wales. Led by veterans...
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English bricklayer, and served in the military until 1802, when he was convicted of theft. He was then transported to Australia, where he helped construct...
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well-connected NSW settler in the period between the termination of the convict assignment system and the onset of the economic depression of the 1840s. It also...
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Robert A. Watson (category Rhode Island politicians convicted of crimes)
Robert A. Watson (born October 14, 1960) is an American attorney and former Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing...
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Cody Henson (category North Carolina politicians convicted of crimes)
Cody Henson is an American politician who served in the North Carolina House of Representatives representing the 113th district (including constituents...
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Alfred Frauenfeld (category Austrian Nazis convicted of war crimes)
Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld (18 May 1898 – 10 May 1977) was an Austrian Nazi leader. An engineer by occupation, he was associated with the pro-German wing...
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Bagatsing Argel Joseph Abet Raz February 3, 2003 (2003-02-03) Tata got convicted after false accusations were made against him and lost his wife and everything...
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Sir Robert Seppings (ship) (category Convict ships to Tasmania)
versa. From 27 November 1850 to 20 January 1851, the ship undertook a convict contract to Bermuda, conveying 284 prisoners, 54 soldiers, 1 emigrant,...
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Jeffrey Epstein (category American businesspeople convicted of crimes)
guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was convicted of only these...
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forging of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, or any acceptance, Assignment, or Indorsement thereof, or any Acquittance or Receipt for Money or Goods;...
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Port Arthur, Tasmania (category Australian Convict Sites)
Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. It is located approximately 97 kilometres (60 mi)...
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James Traficant (category Members of the United States Congress stripped of committee assignment)
Traficant was expelled from the House on July 24, 2002, after being convicted of 10 felony counts, including taking bribes, filing false tax returns...
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the red carpet treatment. Joey reminds Willoughby that he has another assignment that night and there is no one else available. Willoughby then suggests...
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A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their...
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1833, and escaped from his first convict assignment the following year. Placed in Goulburn Jail he met fellow convict Joseph Keys and the pair escaped...
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Edgar continue the investigation of the dead child by re-interviewing convicted paedophile Nicholas Trent. Bosch argues with Deputy Chief Irving over...
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Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th...
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