A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general ... It is estimated that some 50000 Britishconvictswere sent to colonial America, ... The Netherlands ha...
During the late 18th and 19th centuries, large numbers of convictswere ... which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740. ... hulks left over from the Sev...
