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Broadside: The unhappy transport, giving a sorrowful account of his 14, year’s transportation to Botany Bay, New South Wales, in February 1806, and his return to London, March 1, 1821

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Broadside: The unhappy transport, giving a sorrowful account of his 14, year’s transportation to Botany Bay, New South Wales, in February 1806, and his return to London, March 1, 1821

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Title Broadside: The unhappy transport, giving a sorrowful account of his 14, year’s transportation to Botany Bay, New South Wales, in February 1806, and his return to London, March 1, 1821
Publisher T. Bloomer, Printer, Birmingham
Time Period 19th century
circa 1821
Description Broadside street ballad with full title, The unhappy transport, giving a sorrowful account of his 14, year’s transportation to Botany Bay, New South Wales, in February 1806, and his return to London, March 1, 1821. In six parts. Being a remarkable and succint [sic] history of the life of James Revel, the unhappy sufferer, who was put an apprentice by his father to a tinman, near Moorfield, where he got into bad company, and before long ran away and went robbing with a gang of thieves, for which he was transported 14, year's with an account of the way the transports work and punishment they receive for committing any fault. Concluding with a word of advice to all young men. Includes a woodcut illustration of a man in shackles on the shore of a beach.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (14.75 x 10 inches)
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the British Criminal Broadsides collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
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Format of Original document
Subject Heists & Robberies
Jails, Prisons
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
poetry
street ballads
Geographical Location Australia
United Kingdom. England

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