It's of course not some specific move just for Louisiana, France was sending trouble makers and people they didn't want in their society, men and women, to many other remote places that needed warm bodies.
Re:Correction Girls
by Nursie on Sunday January 29, 2023 @08:53AM
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In Britain it was even a sentence handed down by judges - "Transportation" to one of the colonies. Better than hanging, but not by much if a lot of transportees died en-route.
It's of course not some specific move just for Louisiana, France was sending trouble makers and people they didn't want in their society, men and women, to many other remote places that needed warm bodies.