What Was Life Like For Victorian Convicts Exiled To Australia? | Time Travels | Absolute History 

I still would have slept through history, but I probably would have had more pleasant dreams.

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@@stefanluthi6399 :) good times

@@ashleelarsen5002 Yeah greetz from switzerland; the land of choclate, cows and cheese 🏔️🍫🐄🇨🇭

@@stefanluthi6399 *HOWDY!*

Lower life expectancy and not freedom for the people who were there before

What a goddamn love story...TRULY

This is super interesting. How did they meet and get to know each other? I'm assuming prisoners were separated by gender. I have a lot of questions because I find this story fascinating.

Certain prisoners were put to work on farms for the settlers (non-convicts) - they mixed at these times. I am guessing that this is when they met. As my 3 times great grandmother only got 7 years she waited until my 3 times great grandfather was released. By this time they had been allowed to marry. My great grandfather and brothers were born out there. When his sentence was finished they saved and returned to England. Interestingly, he went out with the surname of Wallace but changed their names to surname Kent. I only recently learned that the ship they returned on was called the ‘Kent’. I actually have their prison records and both were model prisoners. I hope I may have answered a couple of your questions.

@Jan Reeves That is actually very helpful and super interesting. Thank you! So cool that you still have the documents too. How crazy that they got such ridiculous sentences for those crimes, but I'm glad they met and started a life together. I'd watch this movie for sure. Probably better than the Notebook. Ha!

My great great great grandfather in UK was put to death by hanging in 1823 for stealing a horse. The next year they stopped the death penalty by hanging. I guess if he waited a couple years maybe he would of been sent to Australia.

I know right?

It’s actually creepy, all the similarities. You’d think people would learn. 🙉

@@margaretqueenofscots9450 a playbook preview, sadly… 💔😵‍💫

@@guyfaux5010 (this guy gets it)

@@margaretqueenofscots9450 Humans aren't that smart.

😂 Theyre all related to GANGSTAS

@@stefanluthi6399 criminals ain't "gangstas". The way the government is treating their citizens over there right now is pretty bad...

@@goosieschmoo8239 True nowadays the real criminals are the polticians...

@@stefanluthi6399 nah. They're just part of it.

@@goosieschmoo8239 😭

Interesting especially for its curious perpetuation of bias,. As though Tasmania were uninhabited & free for the taking, when the English stole the land and built Port Arthur prison there. To me that's quite a bit more than "interesting" . Why perpetuate that English myth? Remember, history stories vary according to who is telling the story .

Get a VPN. Then nobody can dictate what you watch. They really aren't all that expensive either.

@@SkunkApe407 it worked well for this .It sais comments are turned off without VPN .

@@madsnoop7 that's odd.

They won't do that, or you Australians wouldn't like the bullshit English version of English colonialism and British Empire of Australian history that they're peddling here. Haha 😂 eg terra nullius doctrine STILL rules in this doco, loud and clear 😂

@@theon9575 I might just download th3 k3nt and upload it to my channel no VPN needed.

Click bait, shameful as if there was enough to tell

My mom is going to love this...

Rommy Tobinson is a hero

Living historical experiment

Yea cause it’s definitely similar 🙄

Oh just cry about nothing why don't you. Gotta say, people today know NOTHING. Take it from a solitary confinement veteran, having to stay home where one has access to a tv and food is of no concern whatsoever. Try being forced into one 8' by 10' bedroom without ANY entertainment nor bathroom access for years on end by your own "birth giver". Try that for just 5 minutes, then come back and try to complain about public health safety measures. Your "mother" has not been starving you. She hasn't been placing a knife to your throat while explaining how easily she could get rid of you while smiling about it. You had to stay home for a seriously short period of time, fully allowed to eat and use a restroom AT WILL. Boo-hoo little spoiled babies. If I had it my way, the stay at home order would NEVER be lifted. If only just for spite. 12 years I spent locked in one single room. And that is just the nice part of it. Your generation was doomed before the diapers came off. No clue what real problems are. No clue what real suffering is. Spoon fed and coddled to the point where NOT spreading a virus is incorrectly viewed as a "bad" thing. You are doomed and your elders NO LONGER CARE. The last 30 years has pushed us into the realm of not giving a crap. Unlimited access to unlimited information, yet we hear such false nonsense such as "the virus is fake" and "earth is flat". Yea... we are going to watch your generation completely fall apart before we check out. We'll need something to laugh about on the other side.

Neither did its lack of balance.

Nope! Nor his big belly 🤫

Haha I was thinking the collar was way to put there, literally

Howdy 🤠

G'day mate🙃

cheers 🍻

Zhang? Hmmmmmmmm

😂🤣 His Majesty's prisons (as they were formally called), were built like that to give them a (misleading) veneer of respectability, sir. Brick piles signifying justice and punishment. And, at the time it was built, Port Arthur prison did not really house many of the worst of society at all. It housed petty criminals (for misdemeanours you might get a small fine for today), and also political prisoners to keep them silent far from England.

Hahaha You need to get out a bit more, mister . You'll meet few people who are jealous and envious of your country 😂🤣🥲 Or were you joking? In which case, my apologies PMSL dude. You never heard of Pearl Harbour then? 😭🤡

@@theon9575 you know what Theo I'm speaking to one now ,bunch of ingreats.what your talking about is just what I said .the negativity comes from jealousy.

Nobody is forcing you to watch. Nor are they obligated to cater to you. Get over yourself.

Why when ANY other civilization takes over the lands of another civilization, it's called conquering but if it's done by a white civilization it's called stealing? 🤔

@@RuminatingWizard ah, very good question .... thank you ... First, I don't see skin colour such as "white" as relevant here, and also we're talking here about just one country (England), not a whole civilisation. Second, we're talking about Colonialism and countries here, not civilizations battling it out, and one conquering the other (eg Muslim civilization conquering Byzantin Empire etc). Colonialism was very popular in Europe at the time (18th C). .... the French colonised Indo-China, the Italians Algeria, and the Dutch colonised and took over what is now Indonesia, the Belgians colonised the Congo, the Spanish in south America, etc etc. Taking those countries' wealth back home to Europe. Usually also enslaving locals, or transporting enslaved Africans to generate wealth. Bleeding the colonised country dry, and impoverishing the people.. The most successful colonisers (NOT conquerers, because as above, that involves war and battles, a winner, treaty and peace) were the English or British who exploited and took over the most parts of the world, including Canada, swathes of Africa, Caribbean, North America, New Zealand , and so on, and ultimately the Queen of England was declared Empress of India and head of the British Empire . HOWEVER, English own law, stipulated that, when a new place was to be colonised, a Treaty of Agreement must be made with the current owner/residents. This occurred everywhere such as with Canadian and Manahatta Indians, NZ Maori etc etc. BUT when the English arrived at Botany Bay (now Sydney) and Port Arthur (Tasmania), even though Aboriginal people fought to defend their land, FALSE reports were sent to London saying that the land was uninhabited, TERRA NULLIUS. The big English LIE, enabling them to take the land anyway WITHOUT ANY TREATY OR RECOGNITION THAT THE LAND WAS ALREADY INHABITED AND OWNED. And then, as I commented, the English embarked on a horrific program of systematic poisoning for the successful ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. This is not conquering, this is stealing land and ethnic cleansing. To this very day, the Constitution of Australia makes no mention of the people who owned the land for some 50,000 years, but suddenly it was populated in 1788. LOL It is in this sense that the land was "stolen", and I am not alone to use that word. A conquest involves a battle or war of some kind, for one party to win, and for both parties to sign a surrender and agree on terms and conditions for peace. The British broke their own colonial laws to steal this land in this way, and any decent moral code by their systematic rat-poisoning of Tasmanians for ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is unacceptable and illegal by any international law or any moral standard. The German attempt to ethnically cleanse Jews is, for example, a similarly disgusting act, nothing to do with legitimate war and settlement. The English, to this very day, like to pretend it never happened. And the Australian Constitution is still based on this lie in its Pre-amble. Also this video implies original owners of that land of Port Arthur are neatly exterminated and not worth mentioning. Again, thanks for asking. The Aboriginal people of Australia today continue to live in appalling conditions and poor health in one of the richest countries in the world. Dispossessed of their land. Nobody "conquered" anyone. Today January 26 "celebrates" Australia Day, the day the English arrived to take over in 1788. The Aborigines were "invisible". So today is Australian Aborigines' day of mourning. They have my deepest sympathies .

Thx for your explanenation , this is how history should be told

Absolutely! Not only historically incorrect, but a deliberate and serious insult to Aboriginal people then living in Tasmania. Until the English genocide formally perpetrated there. Terra nullius still applies in this doco. The English Empire still rules in this garbage. They know no shame! Disrespectful racist 💩, it is for the first half hour. At least .

Erin Go Braugh!

All peoples have been conquered, waged war, separated land, taken captives, traded in flesh, forced beliefs, ect... Get over it. If it wasn't the British doing it then the Chinese would have done it. Should have fought harder. By this time Europeans were used to throwing tens of thousands of men into battle. So called original peoples (not true) had no chance. Europeans owe this experience to the Romans, Vikings, Caliphate, Saxons, Mongolians, ect... Should have fought harder.

@@BridgesDontFly First, I'm not 'getting over' people being horrendously brutal to one another. Second, you didn't counter my opinion that this is a biased video and factually incorrect. Your opinion is the Aboriginal people should have fought harder?

@@gradyrm237 Yep. Should have. They'd still be beating drums in bush if not for Europeans.