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Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers

Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers

Pybus, Cassandra

Paperback

Austrian & Hungarian HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0868408492
ISBN13: 9780868408491
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
In this compelling new book, distinguished historian and writer Cassandra Pybus reveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers - a fact which profoundly complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. Most of these black founders were originally slaves from America who had sought freedom with the British during the American Revolution only to find themselves abandoned and unemployed in England when the war was over. Pybus' stories include the notorious runaway 'Black Caesar', who became our first bushranger, and the wonderfully subversive Billie Blue, who was the first ferryman on Sydney Harbour, after whom Blues Point is named.

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