Black Founders

The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers

Cover Art for 9780868408491, Black Founders by Cassandra Pybus
ISBN: 9780868408491
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 31 August, 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Links Australian Libraries (Trove)
Editions:
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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 slaves from America who had sought freedom in Britain during the War of Independence, and included Billy Blue.

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