Admin

Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade

Australia has often sought to reassure itself that at least the nation is untainted, unlike Britain and the US, by a heinous history of slavery.. But “the evidence of the Australian slave trade through blackbirding is everywhere – it hides in plin sight”, Emelda Davjus, a former Sydney citi coucillor, community advocate and second-generation descendant…

Read Full News