Both Aust and America in their colonial experiences involved the transportation of convicts from the British Isles to these new continents, but only in the former case is there a significant acknowledgment that the roots of colonisation rest in the establishment of penal settlements. In the latter AFAIK there is a limited recognition of the role of indentured servitude, but not to the same extent as we in Aust recognising and celebrating Botany Bay, the 1st Fleet, Tasmania as a convict dumping ground, etc. What changes in circumstances would be required for the convict context to play a more prominent part in American colonial hist to the same extent as in Aust ?