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Title The forgotten people : a history of the Australian South Sea Island community / [edited by Clive Moore]
Published Sydney : Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1979

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 MELB  305.89950943 Moo/Fpa  AVAILABLE
Description 95 pages : 4 pages of plates ; 20cm
Summary 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
Subject Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Pacific Islanders. -- Queensland -- History.
Melanesians -- Queensland -- History.
Slavery -- Australia.
Sugar workers -- Queensland -- History.
Melanesians -- Social conditions.
Kanak (New Caledonian people), Treatment of -- Australia -- Queensland
Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Queensland.
Slave trade -- Oceania.
Australian South Sea Islanders -- Queensland
Kanakas -- Treatment -- Australia -- Queensland
Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Queensland
Melanesians -- Queensland.
Kanakas -- Treatment -- Queensland.
Pacific Islanders -- Australia.
Australian South Sea Islanders -- Treatment -- Queensland.
SUBJECT Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422
Author Moore, Clive. ed
Peacock, Matthew.
Australian Broadcasting Commission.
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