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Unshackled : the true convict story.
Exhibition 13 March - 28 July 2024 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition will continue online. The New South Wales Teachers Federation is an exhibition partner. Funded by the Australian Research Council. Illustration from a book in the Teachers Federation Library collection, Government Jail Gang, reprinted in Settlers and convicts, by an Emigrant Mechanic, 1874. From: A. Earle, Australian scrap book (1830). "A multimodal exhibition unveiling true stores of Repression, Exploitation, Resistance and Redemption from women and men exiled as convicts to the Australian colonies. Thousands of revolutionaries, labour protestors, trade unionists, Irish freedom fighters, rebellious slaves, mutinous soldiers and working class radicals were also transported as political prisoners. Out of sight, but were they out of mind?" -- Unshackled exhibition. "This new exhibition of convict Australia interweaves the shared experiences of the dispossessed poor, political prisoners, and First Nations resistors, across the invaded continent." -- Unshackled exhibition. "A multimodal exhibition unveiling true stores of Repression, Exploitation, Resistance and Redemption from women and men exiled as convicts to the Australian colonies. Thousands of revolutionaries, labour protestors, trade unionists, Irish freedom fighters, rebellious slaves, mutinous soldiers and working class radicals were also transported as political prisoners. Out of sight, but were they out of mind?" -- Unshackled exhibition. "This new exhibition of convict Australia interweaves the shared experiences of the dispossessed poor, political prisoners, and First Nations resistors, across the invaded continent." -- Unshackled exhibition.

A Government Jail Gang. From: A. Earle, Australian scrap book (1830).