Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Something to hide

2. Amnesia

3. An amazing cast of characters

4. A convict community

5. Outward bound

6. The Bathurst road

7. An unclean thing

8. A pervading stain

9. Best forgotten

10. Distinctions of Moral Breed

11. The Lost World

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Babette Smith is an independent historian and author of the bestselling account of the lives of a shipload of female convicts, Cargo of Women.

Reviews

"'Babette Smith's arguments will be hotly debated, but there is no doubting the fascination or drama of this study of the stain we pretend is not there.' - Thomas Keneally, Booker prize winning novelist"