Dave JSep 1, 2023
It's 160 years since the #blackbirding era began. It's not just #history for #descendants of those who were taken. https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/sugar-slavery-queensland-160-year-anniversary-blackbirding-began/102763852 #australia #ASSI #AustralianSouthSeaIslanders #pasifika #slavery #kanaka #sugar #cotton
Sugar, slavery and Queensland: It's 160 years since the blackbirding era began - ABC Pacific

More than 60,000 Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia to work on the cotton, and later, sugarcane plantations. Jimmy was one of the many teenagers who was kidnapped or "blackbirded".

ABC Pacific