Wentworth, WC - Wentworth

... refers to convicts who remained in Australia after completing their sentences. It is also the name of a pressure group led by William C. Wentworth (1790-1872), a lawyer and politician whose parents were convicts, that campaigned for equal rights for former convicts. From the start of settlement in 1788 to the end of convict acceptance in 1868, about 175,000 convicts were sent to Australia, and they became the core labor force in the early days of development, working on public works projects to build settlements and lending them to private households as unpaid labor.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Wentworth, WC" is listed below.

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…オーストラリアで，刑期を満了したのちもオーストラリアに残留した流刑囚をいう。また流刑囚を両親に持つ法律家･政治家ウェントワースWilliam C.Wentworth(1790‐1872)を頭首に，元流刑囚の平等な権利獲得運動を展開した圧力団体の呼称でもある。1788年の入植開始から流刑囚受入れ打切りの1868年までに，約17万5000の流刑囚がオーストラリアに送られ，彼らは入植地建設の公共事業のほか，個人の家庭に無償労働力として貸し出されたりして，開拓初期の中心労働力となった。…

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