Penal Servitude

DESCRIPTION: "I have just arrived from Australia, Where I have been for a change of air." He described the "jolly living" there "Where they feed you, and they clothe you Better than a working man or soldier." He tells his history and how he was transported
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland); Anderson dates his broadside c. 1830
KEYWORDS: crime travel transportation
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 91-93 "Penal Servitude" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 55, "Penal Servitude!" (1 text)
Roud #V27681
File: AnFa091

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