Casting a spotlight on the Black convicts of African descent who helped shape Australia
- Written by Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
Billy Blue, 1834, by J. B. East.Mitchell Library, State Library of New South WalesIt is a new idea to many Australians that their past is connected to the tragic history of transatlantic slavery.
Some aspects of this relationship have begun to be uncovered: for instance when Britain abolished slavery in its Caribbean colonies – places such as...
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