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Weblog for HIST 381 at NDSUFriday, February 24, 2006
RP Lecture 4
Lecture number four started out by Professor Isern showing us some pictures of Sydney. He showed a picture of Coathanger Bridge, the world’s largest steel arch bridge, and just under it is the first home to the convicts.
In 1788 sheep took over the farm land, people moved into the city, and the birthrate went up, and so did the street crime. The jails were full and they could not take anymore prisoners so they packed up prisoners and shipped them to Australia. Why only to Australia? Why not New Zealand? Well when they arrived with no tools, no skills, and hungry they were told to build houses. They had no idea how to build a house and neither did the troops, because they were solders. But Author Phillips got things done. He cut rations and maintained discipline, because he needed to, to maintain a variety of criminals. The criminals were poachers, and prostitutes that would lour men in and steal their wallets. But today Australian people get excited if they hear that there is a convict in their family tree. That means that they are related to a real Australian. I get excited too when I hear a Russian last name like mine in the Olympics.
Australia began to develop after convicts put in 56 hours of work per week. Then some privates helped convicts get land and redeem them selves. Which I thought was very nice of them and also that they would hook them up with some rum once in awhile. In New Zealand there was a man named Edward Wakefield, and he believed in “planned colonization”. He wanted to send good men out that would be able to buy the land for a reasonable price then get men to work it for them. His goal was to get rid of tenant farming. I think it’s a great Idea. A colony ruled by leaders, sounds good to me.
In this lecture we discussed the transportation of the convicts, who the convicts were, what Wakefield believed and a lot of other thought.
P.S. Beautiful song professor :)
P.S. Beautiful song professor :)
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