By Leonie Stevens
Penned via the exiles in the course of their fifteen years on the cost referred to as Wybalenna, goods within the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters, and petitions provide a compelling corrective to conventional portrayals of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people's ultimate days. The exiles didn't see themselves as prisoners, yet as a loose humans. obvious via their very own writing, the group at Wybalenna used to be bright, advanced, and evolving. instead of a depressed humans easily looking forward to loss of life, their very own phrases exhibit a politically astute neighborhood engaged in a 15 12 months crusade for his or her personal freedom: one that was once finally winning.
This is a compelling tale that would profoundly have an effect on understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history.
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