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Constance Couronne: From Enslaved Child in Mauritius to Emancipated Convict Grandmother in New South Wales
Convicts, Creolization & Cosmopolitanism in the British & French Empires
2022
British historian Clare Anderson has written more information on the situation of 9-year old enslaved girl Constance Couronne who was transported from one British colony to another in 1834.
The blog includes a transcript of 9-year-old Constance’s convict record for when she’d been sent to NSW in 1834.
Constance Couronne was transported from Mauritius to Australia with her cousin 12-year-old Elizabeth Verloppe. They were first sent to the Female Factory in Parammatta before being assigned as servants to Henry Wilson, Sydney’s First Police Magistrate
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