Part of the Punishment
Linda Colley: Convict Flows, 5 January 2023
Convicts: A Global History
by Clare Anderson.
Cambridge, 476 pp., £26.99, January,978 1 108 81494 2 Show More
by Clare Anderson.
Cambridge, 476 pp., £26.99, January,
“... cared? It was part of their punishment. Denmark sent convicts to its Caribbean colony of St Thomas, where they cleared land, planted crops, fished and built houses. The British employed the inmates of their ‘model’ penal colony at Mazaruni, Guyana, established in 1842, to quarry granite, a commodity that commanded high prices. It was a bonus that ... ”