The Myth of the Flogging Parson: Samuel Marsden and Severity of Punishment in the Age of Reform.
In 1817, Governor Macquarie alleged that Samuel Marsden was an especially severe magistrate, a claim widely repeated in subsequent histories. And yet, if measured against other magistrates in the Macquarie era, Marsden sentenced convicts to a flogging less frequently and ordered typical numbers of l...
| Published in: | Australian Historical Studies Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 486 - 502 |
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