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Closing Hell's Gates: The Life and Death of a Convict Station

By Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
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By Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
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In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the system opted for "state-assisted" escape. Five terrified witnesses—their hands and feet bound—were forced to watch as the chained convicts seized Constable George Rex and drowned him in the tannin-stained waters of the harbour. When the sentence of death was pronounced upon them, the condemned prisoners uttered just one word in reply: Amen.
For 12 long years between 1822 and 1834, Sarah Island in...

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