Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand / edited by Zoë Laidlaw and Jane Lydon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laidlaw, Zoë., Author.

Contributor:

Laidlaw

Series:

Studies in Imperialism Series

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Australia.

Slavery.

Slavery--New Zealand.

New Zealand.

Great Britain.

Australia.

New Zealand--History--1876-1918.

Great Britain--Colonies--Oceania--History--19th century.

Australia--History--1788-1900.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Zoë Laidlaw is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.

Jane Lydon is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.

Summary:

This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked.

Contents:

Foreword : the silence of slavery : yarning about freedom in my family / Carol Dowling

Introduction : Australian and New Zealand legacies of slavery / Zoë Laidlaw and Jane Lydon

1. Profession and patrimony : Australian colonial governors and British slavery, 1788-1901 / Zoë Laidlaw

2. Slavery, manumission and abolition in the life of Lachlan Macquarie / Annemarie McLaren

3. Slavery and the foundation of the Swan River colony : the Stirling, Mangles and Prinsep families / Aoife Nugent

4. Measuring Noah's ark : Western Australian legacies of British slavery / Jane Lydon and Xavier Reader

5. Landed families, intergenerational wealth and the creation of a 'pastoral interest' in Western Australia, 1830-50 / Jeremy Martens

6. Slavery and South Australia's colonisation : resituating George Fife Angas / Nikita Vanderbyl

7. Transatlantic slavery, trans-Tasman mobility and Indigenous history in New Zealand / Angela McCarthy and Angela Wanhalla

8. Blackness and slavery in the aftermath of abolition : the case of South Sea Islanders in Australia / Emma Christopher

9. The 'common practice of kidnapping and slavery' : recovering the hidden history of pearling in Northern Australia / Malcolm Allbrook

10. Legacies of British slave ownership : imperial reach and the reconfiguration of labour regimes / Keith McClelland

11. Legacies of a colonial past : slaves, convicts, free workers and the Australian commons / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart .

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ISBN:

1-5261-8480-X

1-5261-8482-6

9781526184801

OCLC:

1573649594