South Sea Islanders arriving in Bundaberg by ship, c1893

South Sea Islanders arriving in Bundaberg by ship, c1893. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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South Sea Islander recruitment, New Hebrides, 1893

Australia
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1 January 1893
22 October 2010
22 October 2010

Location

Australia
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22 October 2010

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Neighbours: Asia and the Pacific
Sugar slaves

Map of the New Hebrides with handwritten numbers indicating where and how many South Sea Islanders were taken on board during the twentieth voyage of the Labour Vessel, Ariel, 1893 and list of Islanders 'recruited' on this voyage. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Sugar slaves

White Society used them as labourers when needed and discarded them when no longer needed: they were coerced and expendable labour

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The Pacific Islander labour trade, c1889

The Swallow family and members of their staff at Hambledon Sugar Plantation outside Cairns, c1889.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 171012

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