DETAILED NOTES ON FREMANTLE PRISON

Detailed Notes on fremantle prison

Even though the Swan River Colony was established to be a "absolutely free settlement"[22] (in contrast to the penal colonies around the east Coastline), through the 1840s demand for reasonable labour overcame an early reluctance, as well as colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the initial convict ship Scindian on

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