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Just starting now! Cockatoo Island is in Sydney Harbour and set up as convict island https://twitter.com/katyaroscoe/status/1298933750055796736
Island visible from Sydney so convicts on display. On view to civilisation but not able to participate in it as one contemporary said @KatyRoscoe
Indigenous prisoners that connect Island and the Bush
Prisoners with connections overseas eg sailor prisoners. Some black sailors eg Catholic American William Barry.
Thinking of island spaces and relationship of people and place. Established one year before transportation to NSW ceased
Many indigenous and colonised subject dispatched to Cockatoo Island. And views as place for most dangerous prisoners under eye of authority. First convicts from Norfolk Island
One of first inmates “the singing convict” and “unmitigated villain”
black prize fighting champion with many familiar convict tattoos
