
Thumbpicker
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Some of the convicts that escaped Macquarie Harbour Penal station on the West Coast of Tasmania were probably just as free. Except they ran out of food in rugged bushland and ate each other.That the British were particularly autocratic. The colonist's tax burden was like 2-3%. There's a good contrarian essay on this by Gary North. Let me know if you're interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pearce