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Cargando... Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain's Empirepor Graham Seal
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I picked up "Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire" after finding out that my 3x great grandfather and his son were sentenced to transportation in the mid 1800s. According to the book, it was a practice that had been going on for centuries by that point and, including the Home Children shipped out of Britain once transportation of convicts was halted, lasted for about another century more. There were a dizzying amount of places that people were transported from and to and the treatment ranged from brutal to almost benign at times. This interesting account gave me more clues for research so all is good. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal system of human bondage which would continue into the twentieth century. Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters, and official documents, Graham Seal uncovers the traumatic struggles of those shipped around the empire. He shows how the earliest large-scale kidnapping and transportation of children to the American colonies were quickly bolstered with shipments of the poor, criminal, and rebellious to different continents, including Australia. From Asia to Africa, this global trade in forced labor allowed Britain to build its colonies while turning a considerable profit. Incisive and moving, this account brings to light the true extent of a cruel strand in the history of the British Empire. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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