slavery – Australian South Sea Islanders

Sugar Slaves

August 15, 2016
Emelda Davis
Blackbirding, slavery

On the 25th of August 1994, the Commonwealth Government officially recognised descendants of Australia’s blackbirding trade as a “Distinct Cultural Group”. The Salvation Army‘s Freedom Partnership – to End Modern Slavery, and the Australian South Sea Islanders Port...

Slavery or Servitude

September 3, 2015
Emelda Davis
slavery

Shireen Malamoo listens to interview by Emelda… ‘Slavery or Servitude’ is an emotional and confronting insight into the domestic servitude forced upon Aboriginal women in Australia. Stolen as children from their parents and placed in girls training homes, they were trained as...

Our south seas sin

Shireen Malamoo with SMH article entitled “Our south seas sin” Back in August, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald’s Asia Pacific Editor, Hamish McDonald, wrote an article entitled “Our south seas sin” which talked about a regional approach of connecting Australian South Sea Islanders...

West Indies underwater monument to slavery.

January 20, 2015
Emelda Davis
slavery

Grenada West Indies underwater monument to slavery. Grenada, West Indies. Located in Grenada’s Moilinere Bay, Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater sculptures are a momument created to pay homage to the hundreds of slaves that sought freedom or were forced to jump overboard slave ships travelling through...

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Sugar Slaves

Slavery or Servitude

Our south seas sin

West Indies underwater monument to slavery.

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