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Why were peasants sent to Australia?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Peasants were not sent to Australia, Britain sent convicts to Australia from 1788 to about 1868. However the mainstream of population buildup was from free migration. To assist this, land was sold at 1 pound an acre, and these funds were used by the colonies to subsidise Immigration. Many of the immigrants/settlers became small farmers, and as peasants are small farmers, they could be called peasants, however that is a word more appropriate to the middle ages than the modern era.

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