I often wonder if the original sentence some convicts were transported for was one way of a well to do employer getting rid of an employee who was being a little too familiar with their wife or daughter? And are then brutalised by a merciless system...
When we visited the Female Factory in Hobart, we read it was common for female convicts sent out as household servants to come back pregnant.
Could have been a fake accusation.
John Macarthur was convinced his wife was unfaithful to him, but she wasn't. It was just Macarthur's paranoia.
I often wonder if the original sentence some convicts were transported for was one way of a well to do employer getting rid of an employee who was being a little too familiar with their wife or daughter? And are then brutalised by a merciless system...