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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Show me where there was a penal colony in what is now the US. I have never heard of one and don't think there was one. Prove me wrong.
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I was taught in junior high school that Georgia was founded as a penal colony.
Wikipedia says so too.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Most notably, the Province of Georgia was originally designed as a penal colony. Convicts would be transported by private sector merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 60,000 British convicts were banished to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the eighteenth century.
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Is your disagreement based on the definition of "Penal Colony?" According to
this site, the convicts settling Georgia were all debtors.