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“They are to wear chains and the yellow dress, with the word ‘felon’ stamped upon it in several places…. They are to be put to the heaviest and most degrading labour that can be found.” So ran a report in an issue of the Westminster Review from 1834 on the fate of “the very worst” of convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land, a British crown colony established on the island of Tasmania.