In 1788 there were at least fifteen convicts of African descent on board the First Fleet, and hundreds more followed. Who ...

Santilla Chingaipe tells the stories of the 15 convicts of African descent that came with the first fleet, and the hundreds that followed. How does their story fit in the story of the global slave ...

Being a convict at an Australian penal colony in the 19th century was a harrowing experience. Once there, convicts often came ...

“This reflects the strong bilateral relationship and mutual respect between Indonesia and Australia,” the ministers ... along with eight other drug convicts at Nusa Kambangan prison, including ...

They were sent with other convicts to Australia and they arrived in Sydney on 27 August 1829. The Greek sailors who were illiterate and didn't know much English worked as farmworkers for landowners.

The penalty of transportation to Australia also applied to women and children from the age of nine. The convict stations are testimony to a legal form of punishment that dominated in the 18 th and 19 ...

It was viewed as a suitable alternative to hanging. From 1787 onwards, convicts were sent to Australia, where they faced many years of hard labour. America had become independent from Britain in ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections (Menko Kumham Imipas) Yusril Ihza Mahendra stated that five foreign nationals (WNA) convicted in the Bali ...

"The five remaining prisoners in the Bali Nine case were transferred from Bali on Sunday morning and have landed in Darwin, Australia," said I Nyoman Gede in a written statement on the same day.

Review: Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia – Santilla Chingaipe (Scribner) Along with capital, investors brought knowledge and attitudes – how to grow sugar in Queensland ...