Tha amazing story of Australia's own slave trade - the 'blackbirding' days when thousands of South Sea Islanders were put to work as 'kanaka' labourers in the Queensland sugar plantations. This is the Islanders' own story, told by descendants still living in Australia.
Contents
Editors introduction -- Footnotes -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 'Blackbirding': the Islanders' experience -- The government agent -- A history of guns -- Melanesian customs: two perceptions -- Life on the plantations -- Pacific Islander and Aboriginals -- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Deportation: 1901-1907 -- Islander religion and custom in Queensland -- Custom retention -- ISLANDERS TODAY -- How they survived -- Prejudice -- Poverty -- The Pacific Islanders' case with the Federal Government -- Education and employment -- Footnotes -- Select bibliography
Analysis
Plantations. Immigrant indentured personnel: Kanakas. Treatment. Queensland. Transcripts of interviews
Notes
From the ABC Broadband radio series first broadcast January 10-12, 1978, recorded and presented by Matt Peacock
Bibliography
Bibliography: page 91
Issuing Body
From the ABC Broadband radio series first broadcast January 10-12, 1978