Number of Convicts Transported within the British Empire
Date Main place Of origin Destination Number 1619-1775 Britain and Ireland The American Colonies 80,000 1787-1825 India & Burma Bencoolen 5,000 1790-1860
India & Ceylon Straits Settlements 16,000 1788-1849 Britain and Ireland New South Wales 80,000 1803-1853 Britain and Ireland Van Diemen's Land 75,000 1808-1815 Britain and Ireland West Indies 2,000 1815-1837
India Mauritius 2,000 1824-1863 Britain and Ireland Bermuda 9,000 1842-1875 Britain and Ireland Gibraltar 9,000 1846-1850 Britain and Ireland Port Phillip 3,000 1850-1868 Britain and Ireland Western Australia 10,000 1858-1937 India Andamen Islands 80,000 Total 371,000
Books
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Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration
Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley
London: Leicester University Press, 1997
Convict Maids
Deborah Oxley
Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996
Convict Women
Kay Daniels
St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998
Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53
Clare Anderson
London: Macmillan, 2000
More SourcesDamousi, Joy, Depraved and Disorderly, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Read an excerpt in Australian Humanities Review.
Reading list, University of Leicester's "Convicts and the Colonies" Course and its list of sources
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