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SUGAR SLAVES. THE SECRET HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA’S SLAVE TRADE.

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Few people know that the Australian sugar industry was founded on the sweat of men and women enticed or kidnapped from the islands of the South Pacific. Sugar Slaves, is the story of that human traffic, euphemistically known as "blackbirding". Between 1863 and 1904 about 60,000 islanders were transported to the colony of Queensland, where they toiled to create the sugar plantains of the far nor...
Display date:
1995
Location:
Australia
Format:
MovingImage
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Contributors:
Director: Trevor Graham
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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