Unwilling Emigrants by Alexandra Hasluck
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Unwilling Emigrants by Alexandra Hasluck

SKU TBM9780949206947
AU$19.00
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ISBN: 9781863683951
Shelf No: 3423
Author: Alexandra Hasluck
Edition: 2nd edition 2nd printing
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Place: Fremantle WA
Year: 2002
Format: Paperback
Volume: 1
Pages: 256 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Cost: 3.00
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with wear to book corners and edges. Partial date due slip on inside. Some minor marks on book foredges.

This book was inspired by the discovery of a tattered bundle of letters. The letters were written by Myra Sykes to her husband William who had been transported to the Swan River Colony. In the 1850s the eastern colonies had either ceased taking convicts or were in the process of ending transportation. The Swan River Colony settlers however, were desperate for labour and were petitioning the British government to send convicts. Alexandra Hasluck uses William Sykes as an example of the "prototype "convict sent to Western Australia.

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