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But we had more convicts.(History)
AMERICA IS DUE for a very big birthday this year--the 400th anniversary of the first lasting British settlement on its soil--at Jamestown, Virginia, in May 1607. A mighty oak indeed grew from this swampy little acorn, but in one small corner of the celebrations we can take pride. Australia did convicts bigger and better.
Convicts were a substantial part of the immigrants flowing to the New World over the 170 years after the Jamestown settlement, and were major contributors to the population of what became the US South. The precise numbers have never been known, but a round figure of about 100,000 has sometimes been advanced, compared to about 150,000 to 160,000 ...
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