sugar

South Sea Islanders planting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders, loading sugar cane, c1890. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 16964

South Sea Islanders, Lower Herbert, c1890. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 18049

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

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 2246

South Sea Islander recruitment, New Hebrides, 1893

Australia

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1 January 1893

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Collection of Queensland State Archives

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

Queensland Acclimatisation Society

Members of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society in the nineteenth century played a key role in the importation and experimentation with many plants.

Pioneer River at Marian Sugar Mill, 1914. From Glimpses of sunny Queensland (3rd edition), Queensland Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, Brisbane, 1914. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland