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| Title: | Contesting Corporal Punishment: Abolitionism, Transportation and the British Imperial Project |
| Authors: | Barrett Meyering, Isobelle Department of History |
| Keywords: | Nineteenth century Australia Abolitionism |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Between the 1820s and the 1840s, anti-slavery ideas shaped debate about the treatment of convicts in the Australian penal colonies. This thesis investigates the impact of abolitionism on one key aspect of convict life: the use of corporal punishment. It traces the rise and decline of abolitionist rhetoric in the work of three vocal critics of flogging: newspaper editor Edward Smith Hall (1786-1860); English politician William Molesworth (1810-1855); and penal reformer Captain Alexander Maconochie (1787-1860). It highlights the connections between their opposition to flogging and their anxieties about the legitimacy of the wider British imperial project. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5812 |
| Department/Unit/Centre: | Department of History |
| Appears in Collections: | Honours Theses - Department of History |
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