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yeah it was

but scroll back

this all started when I said America was a penal colony and blownut tried to say it wasn't

it in fact was, just like Australia was

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The British used North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Convicts would be transported by merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies.

You try to make it sound like all americans were convicts and that's what bob is disputing.

When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of what is now known in Australia as penal settlements. Some of these included Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and New South Wales.

at least we know tim's family was definitely convicts.

Nope, not trying to make it sound like anything other than what it was

the largest number of convicts were sent to America

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_count...ny_for_Britain

The British Empire sent convicts to many countries, especially to their colonies, where the cheap labour convicts offered could be employed. While convicts were sent to Singapore, South Africa and India, the largest numbers were sent to America and after the American revolution Australia (similar quantities over a smilar period).