THE SMART TRICK OF FREMANTLE PRISON THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

When the Swan River Colony was proven to be a "cost-free settlement"[22] (in contrast to the penal colonies on the east coast), with the 1840s demand from customers for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, along with the colony agreed to accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the initial convict ship Scindian on two June 1850