DETAILED NOTES ON FREMANTLE PRISON

Detailed Notes on fremantle prison

Whilst the Swan River Colony was proven being a "free settlement"[22] (in contrast to the penal colonies on the east coast), by the 1840s demand from customers for reasonable labour overcame an early reluctance, plus the colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the first convict ship Scindian on two June 1850 was unan

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