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What were convicts like?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Convicts were rough people seeing as they commited crimes but when many were sailed to Australia they lived in the hull of the ship ( the very bottom) down there female convicts were raped by male guards, rats, and they did their business in buckets but as you could imagine the ship was very rocky so the buckets of business tipped over

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