Mention 'blackbirding' anywhere on this island and you'll hear harrowing stories of missing boys and men. This is a place where the past haunts the present. A beach in Bethel, on the island of Tanna ...
More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island. Bishop Silouan Silala Vea's ancestors were invited aboard for a meal in a gesture the villagers thought was "great hospitality" by ...
There are moves afoot to scrub colonial businessman Benjamin Boyd’s name from the map. The owners of historic Boydtown on the NSW south coast are planning to change its name, while Ben Boyd National ...
Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000. Public domain via ...
Understanding our past is vital, so I want to take this opportunity to speak out about Scotland's part in blackbirding, a dark portion of history I recently learnt about through the most unlikely of ...
The South Sea Islander community in Brisbane has marked the 150th anniversary of 'blackbirding'. Over four decades, more than 60,000 Islanders were tricked or forced into becoming slave labourers in ...
Attention on the plight of forced labourers and the Queensland settlers who profited from them is the latest in the global debate over historical statues Memorials to Queensland pioneers who were ...
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