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For it must be remembered, that the people thus sent out were not a ship’s company with every advantage of health and good living, which a state of freedom produces; butthe major part a miserable set of convicts, emaciated from confinement, and in want of cloaths, and almost every convenience to render so long a passage tolerable.Captain Watkin Tench, Botany Bay, November 1787.
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Hackforth-Jones, J. (1977). Introduction. In: The Convict Artists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03529-8_1
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