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The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers (Paperback)
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The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers (Paperback)
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This is the gripping real-life story of two young boys sent by the
British Government as impoverished and unwanted juveniles to exile
in the worlds first prison built exclusively for children.Some 3000
boys doing their best to survive on the streets of 19th century
Great Britain were forcibly removed from their Oliver Twist lives,
a stolen generation to be saved from a life of crime by being
transported to the other side of the world to endure seven or 14
year sentences in the extraordinary colony of Van Diemens
Land.Prejudice, moral panic, harsh justice and expedience saw
unwanted boys condemned to severe isolation, solitary confinement,
hard labour in chains and thrashings in a juvenile version of
notorious Port Arthur, a ground-breaking chapter in the history of
juvenile crime and punishment.Some quietly endured in the hope of
salvation through rudimentary trade and Biblical instruction, but
others became relentlessly defiant and mutinous in a brotherhood of
resistance and bullying, inexorably slipping from hope to hell.It
culminated on a winters day in 1843 when the infant colony was
shocked to hear that two young boys had bashed an overseer to
death, facing a trial and a walk to the scaffold.As engrossing as a
novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the
worlds mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and
punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another
time but implicitly raises questions which remain with us today.
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