Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand / edited by Zoë Laidlaw and Jane Lydon.
| Other author | Laidlaw, Zoë, editor. |
| Other author | Lydon, Jane, 1965- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026. |
| Description | xxi, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in imperialism Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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. After August 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape, the former slave-owners were paid compensation for the loss of their 'property'. New research has begun to show that many beneficiaries had ties to other parts of the British Empire, including the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Through a range of case studies, contributors to this collection trace the movement of people, goods, capital, and practices from the Caribbean to the new Australasian settler colonies. Chapters consider a range of places, people and themes to reveal the varied ways that slavery continued to shape imperial relationships, economic networks, and racial labour regimes after 1833. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781526184801 |
| ISBN | 9781526184818 |
| ISBN | 1526184818 |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
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