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American citizens, British slaves : Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony, 1839-1850

by Cassandra Pybus, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

This history examines the lives of nearly 100 American citizens transported to Van Diemen's Land as political prisoners following the 1838 border raids into Upper Canada. It draws on convict narratives and archives to document their treatment and legal status.

Accession 15605 ISBN 0522850278 Publisher Melbourne University Press
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In 1840, eighty-two Americans were transported from Canada to Van Diemen's Land. As members of the Patriot Army that had conducted border raids into the colony of Upper Canada in 1838, they saw themselves as courageous republican activists, impelled by a moral duty to liberate their northern neighbors from British oppression. Instead of heroic liberators, they became political prisoners of Her Majesty's government.

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Cassandra Pybus, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
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