--- jf noonan <jfn1 at msc.com> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct
2000, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> > Why 1850? Wasn't the South a British penal colony
> waaay before that?
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> I don't know, but I don't think so.
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> I think you're confusing the US with OZ, but I'm
> open to being
> corrected.
Nope, he's right. Oz became the penal colony after transportation to the plantations in Virginia stopped being a viable penal option some time around 1776, I forget the reason.
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> Joseph Noonan
> Houston, TX
> jfn1 at msc.com
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