<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526274" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such a nice girl <br>funny she never married.<br>Such a nice girl <br>money purchases only pearls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not so convicts<br>transported by merchants <br>auctioned off <br>to plantation owners <br>upon arrival <br>in the American colonies. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Penal labour <br>was slave labour severe <br>physical <br>punishment... included <br>capital <br>punishment by flaying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">British French Spanish <br>colonial empires exploited <br>parts of North America <br>as penal colonies to cheaply...<br> <br>develop an economically <br>underdeveloped <br>part of a state's colonial <br>territories. Slavery <br>even disguised as indentured <br>servitude of youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many prisoners died <br>from excessive <br>labour, hunger, disease, <br>medical neglect<br>or during escape attempts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is estimated that 50,000 <br>British convicts <br>were sent to colonial America<br>approximately <br>one-quarter of all British <br>emigrants <br>during the 18th century. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wisdom <br>Sentimentality Sincerity.<br>Are free <br>inflating hearts that cannot <br>be free upon arrival<br>in colonial territories.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Voyages in linked chains<br>cannot rise<br>above treacherous currents <br>past embroiled <br>in conflict bitter misty <br>sentence dark green sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The United Kingdom deported its convicted criminals to her penal colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until the American Revolution in the 1770s. Dr John Dunmore Lang estimated 50,000 convicts were transported to North America, originally to New England. The majority were prisoners captured in battle who originated from Ireland or Scotland. Some were sold as slaves to the Southern states. See also ‘The Saga Of A Convict Lass’ the original template poem for a collage of poems, symbolic of collective convict suffering, yet unique experiences of individuals, during the penal transportation period; ‘Money Purchases Only Pearls’, ‘Flogged Upon Rack At Sea’ and ‘Sentenced For The Term Of Her Natural Life’ by Terence George Craddock.<br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526274" data-title="Penal Transportation: Forgotten Gaelic Slaves de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Such a nice girl funny she never married. Such a nice girl money purchases only pearls. Not so convicts transported by merchants auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the American colonies. Penal labour was slave labour seve..."></div> </div> </div>

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