ISBN: 9781921362002
Blackgum Item Code: RP49
Title: Exiled to the Colonies, 1835
Author: Bob Mainwaring
Imprint: Regal Publications
RRP: $29.95
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The 'hungry thirties' of the 1800's were desperate times of hopeless poverty and unemployment in Britain. Mechanisation of farms and factories had cast thousands out of work. The farm workers rallied behind 'Captain Swing', a mythical figurehead who urged them to protest by smashing machines and burning crops.
Daniel Imlach and three fellow 'Swing Rioters' are convicted of burning hay ricks and transported to Van Diemen's Land for seven years, Daniel is put aboard the ill-fated George III and suffers shipwreck just sixty miles from Hobart Town a few days later.