Blackbird by David Crookes

Blackbird

David Crookes

440 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative slow-paced
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The early wealth of Queensland depended on slavery, known in Australia as Blackbirding. South Sea islanders were tricked or forced aboard slave ships, then sold to the highest bidder and forced to cut cane on the northern sugar plantations. Beauti...

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