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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles

English · Paperback / Softback

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Bulldog and Musquito, Aboriginal warriors from the Hawkesbury, were captured and sent to Norfolk Island following frontier skirmishes in New South Wales. Eventually, Bulldog seems to have made it home. Musquito was transported to Van Diemen's Land, where he laboured as a convict servant. He never returned. Hohepa Te Umuroa was arrested near Wellington in 1846, with a group of Maori warriors. Five of the men were transported to Van Diemen's Land where Te Umuroa died in custody. More than 140 years later, his remains were carried home to New Zealand. Booy Piet, a twenty-six year-old Khoisan soldier from the Cape Colony, was transported to Van Diemen's Land for desertion in 1842. After three years of convict labour, he died in Hobart General Hospital. These men are among 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this groundbreaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.

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Kristyn Harman is a lecturer in Aboriginal studies at the University of Tasmania's Riawunna Center. She specializes in 19th-century cross-cultural relations throughout the British colonial frontiers.

Product details

Authors Kristyn Harman
Publisher Unsw Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 03.09.2012
 
EAN 9781742233239
ISBN 978-1-74223-323-9
No. of pages 338
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
Weight 762 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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