A bit of untaught history about some of the forefathers exiled to North America. North America was used as a dumping ground for many of Europes undesirables... The British used colonial North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Merchants would transport the convicts and auctioned them off to (for example) plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century. The British also would often ship Irish and Scots to the Americas whenever rebellions took place in Ireland or Scotland, and they would be treated similar to the convicts, except that this also included women and children.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:06:39 +0000
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