Penal transportation was also used as a method of
colonisation. For example, from the earliest days of English colonial schemes, new settlements beyond the seas were seen as a way to alleviate domestic social problems of criminals and
the poor as well as to increase the colonial labour force,
[1] for the overall benefit of the realm.
[2]
England transported its convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended by the Criminal Law Act 1776 (16 Geo. 3 c.43).
[6] The practice was mandated in Scotland by an act of 1785, but was less used there than in England. Transportation on a large scale resumed with the departure of the
First Fleet to
Australia in 1787, and continued there
until 1868.
They are freaking figureheads, now, and rich as, you know. Who freaking cares about their ‘drama’. Maybe, Meghan and Harry should focus their ‘woke’ energy on burned down Australia. The place where Britain sent all the criminals, and ne’er do wells. What a joke.
