Transportation or penal transportation is the sending of convicted criminals or other persons regarded as undesirable to a penal colony. For example, France transported convicts to Devil's Island and New Caledonia and England transported convicts, political prisoners and prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland to its colonies in the Americas (from the 1610s until the American Revolution in the 1770s) and Australia (1788–1868), the practice becoming available in Scotland consequent to the Union of 1707 but used less than in England.
Most of this article deals with transportation from Great Britain.
Origin and implementation
Banishment or forced exile from a polity or society has been used as a punishment since Roman times or before. It removed the offender from society, possibly permanently, but was seen as a more merciful punishment than execution.
Under English Law, transportation was a sentence imposed for felony, and was typically imposed for offences for which capital punishment was deemed too severe: for example, forgery of a document was a capital crime until the 1820s, when the penalty was reduced to transportation. The sentence was imposed for life or for a set period of years. If imposed for a period of years, the offender was permitted to return home after serving out his time, but had to make his own way back. Many offenders thus stayed in the colony as free persons, and might obtain employment as jailers or other servants of the penal colony.
Penal (originally Peñeraal of a Spanish origin) or पीनल is a town in south Trinidad and Tobago. It lies south of San Fernando and Debe, and north of Siparia. It was originally a rice and cocoa producing area but is now a rapidly expanding and developing town. The population is 12,281.
The heart of Penal contains many businesses while the outskirts focus on agricultural development. Penal has a police station, branches of three banks (Scotiabank, Republic Bank and First Citizens Bank) health facilities, photo studios, fast food restaurants, service stations and clothing stores.
Penal plays a major role in the energy supply to the nation's populace. Petrotrin, the national oil company, has a major sub-unit in Clarke Road and the National Gas Company has gas lines running through Penal that links the gas fields of the South East Coast and the industrial estates. One of the countries three major power generating plants owned by Powergen Ltd is located at Syne Village to the west of Penal.
The Historians – The Voyage (convict transportation to Australia)
Some of Australia’s leading convict historians dispel some of the myths about the voyages and convict life in general.
This film provides background information about the Australian National Maritime Museum’s online educational game, The Voyage, based on real convict voyages. Players must make decisions, solve problems and deal with conflicts on a perilous journey across the globe.
Sign on for your voyage here! http://voyage.anmm.gov.au
More resources and information are available here: https://www.sea.museum/learn/apps-and-games/voyage-game
published: 27 Nov 2015
What Actually Happened To Prisoners Sent To Australia?
In the early 1800's England would send convicts on a treacherous journey by sea to Australia. Those that survived the trip were put to work in the fields and do manual labor as part of their prison sentence. Australia turned out to be one of the most brutal places to settle and made lives for prisoners nearly unlivable.
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Australian Penal Colonies
Colonial America had been a destination for Britain's criminals for a while, but the American War of independence in 1776, forced Britain to think of new places to export its convicts, to protect British society.
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Video 1: The Statistics of Convict Transportation
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The US Government's Airline for Prisoners
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How Exactly Did Australia Become a Penal Colony?
Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as a penal colony - a place for lawbreakers to reside outside the confines of England's general population. Britain believed getting rid of responsible parties would end crime altogether, so it sent them across the ocean to the largest island in existence.
While many penal colonies in Australia were known for their heinous conditions, other British colonies across the ocean offered a chance for people to start fresh, with little connection to their past life of misconduct. But why did the British send convicts over to Australia in the first place?
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Ep 7. Convict Transportation
During Australia's colonization, the British Empire would transport over 100,000 of their most vulnerable, troubled, and rebellious people here, to what was then the European equivalent of deep space.
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Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 Transportation and the First Fleet
Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 of 6 - Transportation and the First Fleet
From 1788, for 80 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South Wales. These included children as young as nine years of age. What was life like for these children who had been sent to the other side of the world for crimes like petty theft?
All convicts, including children were expected to work. If they behaved badly, their youth did not protect them from being punished as harshly as adult convicts. Some child convicts went on to learn a trade, gain their freedom and live successful lives.
Step into the shoes of these child convicts to find out more about their stories.
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Some of Australia’s leading convict historians dispel some of the myths about the voyages and convict life in general.
This film provides background informatio...
Some of Australia’s leading convict historians dispel some of the myths about the voyages and convict life in general.
This film provides background information about the Australian National Maritime Museum’s online educational game, The Voyage, based on real convict voyages. Players must make decisions, solve problems and deal with conflicts on a perilous journey across the globe.
Sign on for your voyage here! http://voyage.anmm.gov.au
More resources and information are available here: https://www.sea.museum/learn/apps-and-games/voyage-game
Some of Australia’s leading convict historians dispel some of the myths about the voyages and convict life in general.
This film provides background information about the Australian National Maritime Museum’s online educational game, The Voyage, based on real convict voyages. Players must make decisions, solve problems and deal with conflicts on a perilous journey across the globe.
Sign on for your voyage here! http://voyage.anmm.gov.au
More resources and information are available here: https://www.sea.museum/learn/apps-and-games/voyage-game
In the early 1800's England would send convicts on a treacherous journey by sea to Australia. Those that survived the trip were put to work in the fields and do...
In the early 1800's England would send convicts on a treacherous journey by sea to Australia. Those that survived the trip were put to work in the fields and do manual labor as part of their prison sentence. Australia turned out to be one of the most brutal places to settle and made lives for prisoners nearly unlivable.
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Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as...
Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as a penal colony - a place for lawbreakers to reside outside the confines of England's general population. Britain believed getting rid of responsible parties would end crime altogether, so it sent them across the ocean to the largest island in existence.
While many penal colonies in Australia were known for their heinous conditions, other British colonies across the ocean offered a chance for people to start fresh, with little connection to their past life of misconduct. But why did the British send convicts over to Australia in the first place?
#AustralianHistory #BritishHistory #WeirdHistory
Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as a penal colony - a place for lawbreakers to reside outside the confines of England's general population. Britain believed getting rid of responsible parties would end crime altogether, so it sent them across the ocean to the largest island in existence.
While many penal colonies in Australia were known for their heinous conditions, other British colonies across the ocean offered a chance for people to start fresh, with little connection to their past life of misconduct. But why did the British send convicts over to Australia in the first place?
#AustralianHistory #BritishHistory #WeirdHistory
During Australia's colonization, the British Empire would transport over 100,000 of their most vulnerable, troubled, and rebellious people here, to what was the...
During Australia's colonization, the British Empire would transport over 100,000 of their most vulnerable, troubled, and rebellious people here, to what was then the European equivalent of deep space.
I hope you like it!
Cheers,
Dev
During Australia's colonization, the British Empire would transport over 100,000 of their most vulnerable, troubled, and rebellious people here, to what was then the European equivalent of deep space.
I hope you like it!
Cheers,
Dev
Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 of 6 - Transportation and the First Fleet
From 1788, for 80 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South ...
Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 of 6 - Transportation and the First Fleet
From 1788, for 80 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South Wales. These included children as young as nine years of age. What was life like for these children who had been sent to the other side of the world for crimes like petty theft?
All convicts, including children were expected to work. If they behaved badly, their youth did not protect them from being punished as harshly as adult convicts. Some child convicts went on to learn a trade, gain their freedom and live successful lives.
Step into the shoes of these child convicts to find out more about their stories.
Produced by ABC Education and Sydney Living Museums
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HARRIET HOPE-STREETER
Featuring
ORLANDO TRIBE AVILES
JONATHAN BRANDON
WOLFGANG DEEKER
ADAM LEIZER
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TODD GODDARD
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Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 of 6 - Transportation and the First Fleet
From 1788, for 80 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South Wales. These included children as young as nine years of age. What was life like for these children who had been sent to the other side of the world for crimes like petty theft?
All convicts, including children were expected to work. If they behaved badly, their youth did not protect them from being punished as harshly as adult convicts. Some child convicts went on to learn a trade, gain their freedom and live successful lives.
Step into the shoes of these child convicts to find out more about their stories.
Produced by ABC Education and Sydney Living Museums
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HARRIET HOPE-STREETER
Featuring
ORLANDO TRIBE AVILES
JONATHAN BRANDON
WOLFGANG DEEKER
ADAM LEIZER
Interviewees (SLM)
JACQUI GREENFIELD
TODD GODDARD
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JAMES MURRAY
Coordinator, Learning Programs (SLM)
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Some of Australia’s leading convict historians dispel some of the myths about the voyages and convict life in general.
This film provides background information about the Australian National Maritime Museum’s online educational game, The Voyage, based on real convict voyages. Players must make decisions, solve problems and deal with conflicts on a perilous journey across the globe.
Sign on for your voyage here! http://voyage.anmm.gov.au
More resources and information are available here: https://www.sea.museum/learn/apps-and-games/voyage-game
In the early 1800's England would send convicts on a treacherous journey by sea to Australia. Those that survived the trip were put to work in the fields and do manual labor as part of their prison sentence. Australia turned out to be one of the most brutal places to settle and made lives for prisoners nearly unlivable.
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Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as a penal colony - a place for lawbreakers to reside outside the confines of England's general population. Britain believed getting rid of responsible parties would end crime altogether, so it sent them across the ocean to the largest island in existence.
While many penal colonies in Australia were known for their heinous conditions, other British colonies across the ocean offered a chance for people to start fresh, with little connection to their past life of misconduct. But why did the British send convicts over to Australia in the first place?
#AustralianHistory #BritishHistory #WeirdHistory
During Australia's colonization, the British Empire would transport over 100,000 of their most vulnerable, troubled, and rebellious people here, to what was then the European equivalent of deep space.
I hope you like it!
Cheers,
Dev
Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 of 6 - Transportation and the First Fleet
From 1788, for 80 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South Wales. These included children as young as nine years of age. What was life like for these children who had been sent to the other side of the world for crimes like petty theft?
All convicts, including children were expected to work. If they behaved badly, their youth did not protect them from being punished as harshly as adult convicts. Some child convicts went on to learn a trade, gain their freedom and live successful lives.
Step into the shoes of these child convicts to find out more about their stories.
Produced by ABC Education and Sydney Living Museums
Narrator (ABC)
HARRIET HOPE-STREETER
Featuring
ORLANDO TRIBE AVILES
JONATHAN BRANDON
WOLFGANG DEEKER
ADAM LEIZER
Interviewees (SLM)
JACQUI GREENFIELD
TODD GODDARD
Camera and post production (SLM)
JAMES MURRAY
Coordinator, Learning Programs (SLM)
COLLEEN FITZGERALD
Curator (SLM)
FIONA STARR
Producer (ABC)
JUSTINE OH
Head of Education (ABC)
ANNABEL ASTBURY
Head of Experience & Learning (SLM)
JANSON HEWS
Images reproduced courtesy of
British Library
Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library
National Gallery of Australia
National Library of Australia
National Portrait Gallery, UK
NSW State Archives
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of Victoria
Sydney Living Museums
Yale Center for British Art
Full Image credits list:
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Transportation or penal transportation is the sending of convicted criminals or other persons regarded as undesirable to a penal colony. For example, France transported convicts to Devil's Island and New Caledonia and England transported convicts, political prisoners and prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland to its colonies in the Americas (from the 1610s until the American Revolution in the 1770s) and Australia (1788–1868), the practice becoming available in Scotland consequent to the Union of 1707 but used less than in England.
Most of this article deals with transportation from Great Britain.
Origin and implementation
Banishment or forced exile from a polity or society has been used as a punishment since Roman times or before. It removed the offender from society, possibly permanently, but was seen as a more merciful punishment than execution.
Under English Law, transportation was a sentence imposed for felony, and was typically imposed for offences for which capital punishment was deemed too severe: for example, forgery of a document was a capital crime until the 1820s, when the penalty was reduced to transportation. The sentence was imposed for life or for a set period of years. If imposed for a period of years, the offender was permitted to return home after serving out his time, but had to make his own way back. Many offenders thus stayed in the colony as free persons, and might obtain employment as jailers or other servants of the penal colony.