According to an article published in The New Yorker written by Jim Downs, a Civil War Studies Professor at Gettysburg College and the author of “Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation”, in 1842, a court in Lancaster, England, convicted a young lawyer, George Baxter Grundy, of forging payment, and promptly sent him to serve a fifteen-year sentence in Bermuda, “beyond the seas.”
Thus began the story of Prison Ships which we are going to read in today’s history broadcast.
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