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After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond the seas,” Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years' transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel—a skilled midwife and herbalist—is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the \u003cem\u003eMedea\u003c\/em\u003e arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. 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