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.