Assertion: convict | /r/HasProperty | transported to australia
Facets:
value: in 1787
type: TEMPORAL
value: from slaves from the caribbean
type: OTHER
value: from chinese
type: OTHER
value: from maoris from new zealand
type: OTHER
value: to serve out their sentences
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Convicts were transported to Australia in 1787, arriving in Botany Bay, then Sydney Cove, in January 1788.
text: Convicts were transported to Australia in 1787, arriving in Botany Bay, then Sydney Cove, in January 1788.
text: From the arrival of the First Fleet at Botany Bay in January 1788 to the last shipment of convicts to Western Australia in 1868, over 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia and New Zealand to serve out their sentences as slave labor.
text: Convicts were also transported to Australia from British outposts in India and Canada, plus Maoris from New Zealand, Chinese from Hong Kong and slaves from the Caribbean.
text: The majority of the 165,000 convicts transported to Australia were poor and illiterate, victims of the Poor Laws and social conditions in Georgian England.