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American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839–1850. By Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. xvi, 270 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-87013-623-2.)
Scholars of U.S. imperialism have rarely focused on relations between the United States and Canada. During the 1830s, however, several border raids were attempted by groups of "Patriots" who hoped to inspire a revolution in the British colony of Upper Canada. These attempts failed, and ninety-two of those who were not killed by British troops were transported to Van Diemen's Land, an Australian penal colony. Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart reconstruct the story of the Patriots' invasion of Canada and the punishment that followed by drawing on personal narratives, letters, and diaries, newspaper accounts, and official documents. . . .
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