{"product_id":"breakout-12","title":"Breakout!","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen teenagers they'd been jailed for being black. They'd taken unwilling part in the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. Forcedly interned in a bleak offshore gulag, they'd watched helplessly as friends and family died of disease and despair. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen they were exiled to Victoria where colonists victimised them. It was the last straw. They stole guns and seized their freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir breakout was vengeful and violent. Farms were raided, settlers shot. Despite firefights and ambushes, they evaded pursuers for weeks before being captured in a blaze of gunfire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir murder trial was a farce. Public officials lied under oath. The judge was biased and inept. The verdict was a foregone conclusion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, for the first time, their tragic story is told in full. From their perilous boyhood during Tasmania's Black War to their botched hanging in a crowded Melbourne street.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46412488966354,"sku":"9781923042728","price":42.74,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a60571a4-89df-4224-89c0-5e7aa74d8fec.jpg?v=1762378431","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/breakout-12","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}