Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Tasmanian Aboriginal Abelisaurus to Zuniceratops

Abelisaurus to Zuniceratops

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Published by Quintus Publishing Limited – a joint initiative of Arts Tasmania and the University of Tasmania 2005 112 pages

Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land Tasmanian Aboriginal Abelisaurus to ZuniceratopsIn the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand boys who had been eking out a living on the streets of Britains towns and cities were transported to the Point Puer Boys Establishment in Van Diemens Land. There they were to be turned into productive colonial workers. Despite the rhetoric of reform, most of the boys endured unrelenting punishment