Author: WAWN, William T.
Title: The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade. A record of voyages and experiences in the western Pacific from 1875 to 1891.
Description: London, Sonnenschein 1893. Largish octavo, excellent in publisher's blue cloth; xvi,440pp, numerous illustrations. ¶ First edition. One of the essential works of blackbirding literature; it isn't a rare book but this is an uncommonly good copy. A first hand and an aggressively defensive account of the 'recruitment' of Kanakas for the Queensland sugar industry. I suspect that Wawn was further annoyed at the final form of this work. His first manuscript, written at the height of the controversy, was lost with the wreck of the Quetta and by the time it was rewritten the question was pretty well settled so the publishers took it upon themselves to omit much of the 'controversial matter'. It is dedicated to the "Sugar-planters of Queensland, .. those Bold Pioneers .. who have done more toward the Practical Civilization of the Cannibal and Savage .. those Good Men and True who .. have been basely betrayed, and Unscrupulously Sacrificed .. ".
Keywords: social sciences Australia Pacific blackbirding slavery race travel c19th maritime nautical racism
Title: The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade. A record of voyages and experiences in the western Pacific from 1875 to 1891.
Description: London, Sonnenschein 1893. Largish octavo, excellent in publisher's blue cloth; xvi,440pp, numerous illustrations. ¶ First edition. One of the essential works of blackbirding literature; it isn't a rare book but this is an uncommonly good copy. A first hand and an aggressively defensive account of the 'recruitment' of Kanakas for the Queensland sugar industry. I suspect that Wawn was further annoyed at the final form of this work. His first manuscript, written at the height of the controversy, was lost with the wreck of the Quetta and by the time it was rewritten the question was pretty well settled so the publishers took it upon themselves to omit much of the 'controversial matter'. It is dedicated to the "Sugar-planters of Queensland, .. those Bold Pioneers .. who have done more toward the Practical Civilization of the Cannibal and Savage .. those Good Men and True who .. have been basely betrayed, and Unscrupulously Sacrificed .. ".
Keywords: social sciences Australia Pacific blackbirding slavery race travel c19th maritime nautical racism
Price: AUD 325.00 = appr. US$ 224.86 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8346
- Book number: 8346