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Mutiny, mayhem and murder

Before the establishment of penal settlements in Australia, British convicts were transported to brutal slave garrisons on the West African coast. Sam Leith describes this disastrous experiment

issue 30 July 2011

  • A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa

    Emma Christopher

    OUP, pp. 432

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