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Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 by Tony Moore John C Document generated on 09/29/2021 4:56 a.m. Ontario History Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 by Tony Moore John C. Carter Volume 103, Number 2, Fall 2011 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1065458ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1065458ar See table of contents Publisher(s) The Ontario Historical Society ISSN 0030-2953 (print) 2371-4654 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this review Carter, J. C. (2011). Review of [Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 by Tony Moore]. Ontario History, 103(2), 226–227. https://doi.org/10.7202/1065458ar Copyright © The Ontario Historical Society, 2011 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ 226 ONTARIO HISTORY Death or Liberty: Rebels their own communities. In some quarters they were even revered as freedom fighters and Radicals Transported and patriots, progressive thinkers and cru- to Australia 1788-1868 sading reformers. Their exile to the Australian colonies by Tony Moore performed the dual role of a terrible place Sydney: Murdoch Books, Pier 9, 2010. 432 of banishment with which to deter other pages. $34.95 AU softcover. ISB� 978-1- would-be rioters and unionists and a safety 741961-40-9 (www.murdochbooks.com.au) valve for discontent in the mother country. Included with these prisoners from Brit- outed by media release announce- ain were rebels from an uprising in Lower ments as “the first narrative that Canada and sympathizers, Canadian and brings together the stories of politi- American, apprehended while trying to Tcal prisoners sent as convicts to Australia assist those in Canada whom they saw as from all parts of the British Empire,” it fighting for freedom from British domina- sounded as if Tony Moore’s Death or Lib- tion. Upper Canadian rebels who were to erty might be a new resource to put into join them were luckily spared a similar fate context my long-time re- by legal maneuvers dur- search interest in �orth ing their detention in American political pris- England. oners who were trans- This being said of ported to Van Diemen’s the positive aspects of Land in 1839-40. Moore’s narrative, I In Chapters 1 must turn to the more through 3 and in Chap- perplexing and trou- ter 5 one learns about late bling aspects of his eighteenth- and nine- work related to the teenth-century political �orth American po- enemies of the British litical prisoners. Rebel- government who were lions erupted in Lower banished to the shores Canada in �ovember of Australia. Sent as con- 1837 and in December victs to the other side of in Upper Canada, but the world, these political were soon put down by prisoners included lib- loyalist forces. Howev- erals, democrats and re- er, a second attempt to publican machine break- spark rebellion, origi- ers, food rioters, trade nating in the United unionists and Chartists, radical journalists States and fought by Canadians and Amer- and intellectuals, Irish revolutionaries and ican sympathizers, took place in 1838. Scottish Jacobins. All suffered the same Major raids into Upper Canada occurred fate. In the eyes of the British law they in February-March in the Detroit border were collectively transported as criminals area, in June in �iagara, in early �ovember and traitors to a distant land, even though along the St. Lawrence River, and back in many were viewed as martyrs and heroes in the Detroit region at Windsor in Decem- book revews 227 ber. A number of English-speaking patriots (1978) and more recent writing by Cas- were taken captive in these raids and subse- sandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stew- quently some of them were transported to art (2002). This severely limits his access Australia to other important information about the From the outset, the author makes �orth American political prisoners pub- factual errors about these events. In the in- lished in research studies by Stuart Scott, troduction (p. 9), Moore mentions �orth R. Alan Douglas, Tom Dunning, John American rebels of 1837 and 1839. The Thompson, Ian Brand, Thomas Gunn, F. rebellions and border raids took place in Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boisserry, 1837 and 1838. In Chapter 1 (p. 27), the Chris Raible and Robert Sexton, to name author states that “�orth American free- only a few. Unpublished diaries of Aaron dom fighters from Upper and Lower Can- Dresser (at the Library and Archives of ada (focused on Toronto and Quebec).” Canada) and Elijah Woodman (at the Uni- During the Canadian rebellions more in- versity of Western Ontario), along with the cursions and battles took place in other translated journal of Lower Canadian Pa- places and the focus was not on the two triote Francois-Maurice Lepailleur, are also cities named. Chapter 4, entitled “�orth absent from reference in Moore’s book. American Patriots vs. the Empire,” raises Other factual errors occur in Chapter more concerns. Moore begins his com- 4, of which space allows only a small sample ments about the 1838 Lower Canadian to be mentioned.. Samuel Lount and Pe- rebellion. This is confusing as the first re- ter Mathews (sic) were not hanged “at the bellions occurred in the Canadas in 1837. crossroads of Bloor and Yonge Streets in To- On p. 221 Moore has prisoners from the ronto” (p. 243), but instead were executed Battle of the Windmill near Prescott be- at the Toronto gaol at the north-west cor- ing moved to “nearby Fort Henry.” Fort ner of Church and King streets. There is no Henry, which was the final destination of evidence that any of the Patriots captured these captured Patriots, is in Kingston, a at the Battle of Pelee Island were actually community nearby 100 km away . Also on transported to Van Diemen’s Land (p. 257). p. 221, the author states, “the Battle of the A Lower Canadian uprising took place at Windmill was the climax of a year of raids Sherbrooke, not Sheerbrooke (p. 264). on Canadian soil by American insurgents.” In conclusion, what is presented con- In fact, the Battle of Windsor, which took cerning �orth American prisoners seems place on 4 December 1838, was the last pretty much a synthesis of what has been armed invasion of the Upper Canada. On written previously, and perhaps could be p. 224 the author states that the English- viewed as a re-tread of Rudes’s work. If speaking �orth American prisoners trans- Death or Liberty is to go into a second print- ported to Van Diemen’s Land came from ing, then more judicious editing is recom- three raids. In reality prisoners came from mended along with the correction of factual four incursions. It would have been use- errors and omissions. This would make it a ful for the author to provide some details much better resource in the study of politi- about the numerous incursions related to cal prisoners transported to Australia. the 1838 Upper Canadian rebellion, which numbered ten. Dr. John C. Carter, Moore heavily relies on research done Research Associate, School of History more than thirty years ago by George Rude and Classics, University of Tasmania. .
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