Crime – or was it poverty? – and punishment
Posted on 30th October 2020
Imagine that you had lived in a Somerset or Dorset village or town your entire life You had perhaps never seen the sea or ventured further than the immediate environs of your home Then you commit what was deemed a crime and are transported to the other side of the world It must have seemed terrifying and almost beyond comprehension Transportation was not at all uncommon in England from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century Amazingly to us, the penalty was at first considered an act... more