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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pybus, Cassandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sydney : UNSW Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1788-1900
Africans > Australia > History.
Africains > Australie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Africans.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania.
Australia > History > 1788-1900.
Australie > Histoire > 1788-1900.
Australia.
History.
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.

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