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What is an convict?
convicted criminal (a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense)
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What did a convict do?
They stole food from anywere so they could eat and so they can sell and get money so they can live.
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Who were the convicts?
The convicts were the criminals sent to Australia from England in the 1700s and early 1800s. British prisons were overflowing, and so the decision was made to establish a convict settlement in...
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What did the convicts do?
The convicts literally built the colony. They constructed the buildings, roads and bridges and quarried the stone for building as well as cutting down the trees. They established the first farms and...
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Did convict docs help sick convicts?
Ordinary doctors helped sick convicts. Occasionally, a colony's doctor might have taken on a convict as an apprentice, and upon gaining a conditional pardon, the convict might have chosen to continue...