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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Hang the convicts: capital punishment and the reaffirmation of South Australia's foundation principles |
Author: | Anderson, S. Sendziuk, P. |
Citation: | Journal of Australian Colonial History, 2014; 16:93-110 |
Publisher: | University of New England |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
ISSN: | 1441-0370 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Steven Anderson and Paul Sendziuk |
Abstract: | There exists a curious commonality amongst those sentenced to death in the first twenty-five years of European settlement in South Australia. Of the thirty hangings conducted, twenty-two were Indigenous persons and seven ... were former or escaped convicts; it took some eighteen years before a free settler of European origin was hanged for a crime. In this article we examine the reasons why the hangman visited former or escaped convicts more than any other group. It is now well established that all Australian colonies experienced a growing abhorrence of convicts and the convict past, a revulsion that coalesced around the anti-transportation campaigns and which reflected and were shaped by an increasing mood for self-governance and sovereignty. However, in South Australia this phobia was particularly acute, because the colony prided itself on being convict free. |
Rights: | Copyright status unknown |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 History publications |
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