This revisionist history challenges current ideas about convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion. It examines religious arguments for and against convict transportation, asks why elites believed it could be reformed, and, later, why it should be abolished.
This revisionist history challenges current ideas about convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion. It examines religious arguments for and against convict transportation, asks why elites believed it could be reformed, and, later, why it should be abolished.
Hilary M. Carey is Professor of Imperial and Religious History at the University of Bristol. She is the author of God's Empire (Cambridge, 2011), nominated for the Ernest Scott Prize, and co-editor of Religion and Greater Ireland (2015). She is conjoint professor at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
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List of tables Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: 'Empire of Hell' 2. Saints, Whigs and penal colonies, 1788-1822 3. 'Hell upon earth': Sir George Arthur in Van Diemen's land, 1823-1837 4. Quakers and convict concerns 5. Christian utilitarianism and Archbishop Richard Whately 6. Catholics, Protestants and the 'horrors of transportation' 7. 'Ocean hell': Captain Maconochie and Norfolk Island, 1837-1844 8. Probation in Van Diemen's land, 1840-1849 9. 'Political parsons' and the anti-transportation movement, 1847-1854 10. 'Floating hells': Bermuda, Gibraltar and the Hulks, 1850-1875 11. 'Reformatory colony': Western Australia, 1850-1868 12. Conclusion: 'this great scheme of human redemption' Bibliography Index.
List of tables Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: 'Empire of Hell' 2. Saints, Whigs and penal colonies, 1788-1822 3. 'Hell upon earth': Sir George Arthur in Van Diemen's land, 1823-1837 4. Quakers and convict concerns 5. Christian utilitarianism and Archbishop Richard Whately 6. Catholics, Protestants and the 'horrors of transportation' 7. 'Ocean hell': Captain Maconochie and Norfolk Island, 1837-1844 8. Probation in Van Diemen's land, 1840-1849 9. 'Political parsons' and the anti-transportation movement, 1847-1854 10. 'Floating hells': Bermuda, Gibraltar and the Hulks, 1850-1875 11. 'Reformatory colony': Western Australia, 1850-1868 12. Conclusion: 'this great scheme of human redemption' Bibliography Index.
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