Georges Baudoux's Jean M'Barai The Trepang Fisherman

• Hoofdauteur: Karin Speedy (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: UTS ePRESS 2015
• Onderwerpen: South Sea Islanders; George Baudoux; Colonialism; Jean M'Barai; Australia; Blackbirding; Queensland
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Between 1860 and 1910, Australian governments sanctioned and then tried to stop the trafficking of South Sea Islanders ​to Queensland as forced labourers. Over 60,000 Islanders were lured from their villages: tricked, transported, forced to work in the harsh Queensland bush, and then repatriated. Mo...