Posts Tagged ‘Australian South Sea Islanders’
Slavery in Australia?
As part of ACRATH’s National Conference which is being held virtually this year, ACRATH members and friends listened to Waskam Emelda Davis, Chairwoman of Australian South Sea Islanders Port Jackson, as she answered ‘Was there slavery in Australia?’ We now know there definitely was. The experiences of more than 60,000 South Sea islanders stolen from…
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ACRATH is pleased to invite you to take part in a webinar during which you will learn about the cruel act and generational impact of historical slavery for South Sea Islander people. Starting in 1847 over 62,000 south Sea Islanders, mostly men, were kidnapped, tricked and coerced from Vanuatu, Solomon’s and 80 surrounding islands with the…
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