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Account of an escape by an unknown convict c1840

From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1645001 / MLMSS 5536, p 1]

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The end of transportation

By the late 1840s, a strong political movement to end the convict system had formed in Sydney. Large pastoralists fought to keep their supply of cheap labour, but by 1850 the tide had turned, and no more convicts were transported to Sydney.

Convicts