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Empire of Hell - Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875 (Hardcover)
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Empire of Hell - Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875 (Hardcover)
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This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and
Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about
religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it
examines arguments by elites in favour and against the practice of
transportation and considers why they thought it could be reformed,
and, later, why it should be abolished. In this, the first
religious history of the anti-transportation campaign, Hilary M.
Carey addresses all the colonies and denominations engaged in the
debate. Without minimising the individual horror of transportation,
she demonstrates the wide variety of reformist experiments
conducted in the Australian penal colonies, as well as the hulks,
Bermuda and Gibraltar. She showcases the idealists who fought for
more humane conditions for prisoners, as well as the 'political
parsons', who lobbied to bring transportation to an end. The
complex arguments about convict transportation, which were engaged
in by bishops, judges, priests, politicians and intellectuals,
crossed continents and divided an empire.
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