Black founders : the unknown story of Australia's first black settlers /
In this compelling new book, distinguished historian and writer Cassandra Pybus reveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers - a fact which profoundly complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. Most of these black founders were originally slaves f...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
UNSW Press,
2006.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on sources
- Prologue
- 1 Liberty or death
- 2 Fleeing the founding fathers
- 3 Starving in the streets of London
- 4 Back to Africa
- 5 Bound for the fatal shore
- 6 Recalcitrant convicts at Sydney Cove
- 7 The dread of perishing by famine
- 8 An incorrigibly stubborn black
- 9 Sportsman to General Grose
- 10 Tugging at the oars
- playing in the band
- 11 The Old Commodore
- Afterword
- Appendix: Biographies of the black founders
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.