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Kaos2025 t1_itaamyq wrote

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The US was also a penal colony let’s tell the truth lol

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Billy1121 t1_itadth0 wrote

Georgia was said to be, but really they went to Massachusetts and Maryland as indentured types

> It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to the Americas this way, and the majority landed in the Chesapeake Colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Transported convicts represented perhaps one-quarter of Britons that left the country during the 18th century.

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Traevia t1_itbsjq1 wrote

The USA was a company town. Almost all of the original people who set up cities, towns, farms, etc did so in support of a company.

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