Slavery and Abolition
Volume 40, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 321-340

The saviour and the revolutionary: Afro-caribbean responses in a Queensland/new Guinea kidnapping case (Article)

Christopher E.*
  • a School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Abstract

The recruitment of Pacific Island labourers for Queensland, Australia, 1863–1904, has often been seen through comparisons to the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the fact that men from Antigua, Barbados and Jamaica pushed for justice after one of the most notorious atrocities of the trade has very rarely been noted, their involvement mired by racist reporting of the case. If seen from the perspective of their Caribbean homelands, their words and actions, often misinterpreted by Queensland’s courts and media, can be seen as latter-day resistance to enslavement, oppression and racism. © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058371270&doi=10.1080%2f0144039X.2018.1547506&partnerID=40&md5=a821422727b23c60f7c34ddc59dcda00
DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2018.1547506
ISSN: 0144039X
Original Language: English