mostly black Australia

for a class about the American Revolution I read Epic Journeys of Freedom by Cassandra Pybus, in the book Miss. Pybus lays out the ways black slaves freed themselves by using the British, after the war there were thousands of Black Loyalists who left with nothing, having been property before the won they got no reimbursement for loses by the British Government, white Loyalists wanted little to nothing to do with them, at first they went ether to Canada or London, than some to West Africa, any ways, Miss. Pybus went out on a limb to say that a raise in the number of homeless dirt poor former slaves in London and other cities lead to a raise in crime, this spike in crime lead to the founding of a penal colony in Australia thus Cassandra Pybus was saying that African-Americans running away from slavery lead to the founding of Australia, she is clearly out on limb with this as few if any those that were sent to Australia were black. any ways is there a way that most if not all of those sent to the early penal colony to be African-American former slaves.
 
any ways is there a way that most if not all of those sent to the early penal colony to be African-American former slaves.
A much higher crime rate among the black British population, perhaps?

I don't think Britain had any racial agenda at all when they started transportation overseas -- that is, they didn't deliberately set out to transport white people only (the White Australia Policy didn't appear until 1901). It was motivated by overcrowding in prisons. More black criminals means more black convicts transported to New South Wales.
 
any ways is there a way that most if not all of those sent to the early penal colony to be African-American former slaves.

Disclaimer: This is not intended to be a racist remark, but is instead intended as a possible, though quite implausible, way for this POD to occur.

Now that we have that out of the way.

All/most African-American former slaves become criminals.
 
There were under 5,000 Black Loyalists total and around 160,000 (10,000 by 1810) convicts were transported to Australia. There are ways of getting a Black Australia, this isn't one of them.
 
There were under 5,000 Black Loyalists total and around 160,000 (10,000 by 1810) convicts were transported to Australia. There are ways of getting a Black Australia, this isn't one of them.

The question is does the OP want a "Black Australia" or a "Black Australia" predominantly made up of African Americans?
 
Indeed.

Check out "Black Birding" and Queensland. It would have been quite possible to get a much larger base population of indentured servants in Queensland/Northern Territories in the 19th century, sourced from the Pacific Islands.

This could end up with a sizeable population that was at source Melanesian/Micronesian or Polynesian.

Does anyone know what happened to the black birded populations? Did they return home, or did they settle and merge into the local Settlers populations
 
There were about 350,000 Australian Aborigines at the start of European colonisation - what if the British colonial policy was different, and integrated them alongside the convicts as a labour force, and this results in a larger proportion of the Australian population being of primarily Aboriginal decent? This is probably the only way to get a significant "black" population in Aus: the use of convicts mean that there isn't the incentive to import African slaves, the slave trade was banned in the British Empire in 1807 early in the history of British settlement, and the agricultural products of NSW and the other colonies don't require the kind of intense labour that the plantation crops of the Southern US did.
 
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