Article linked below discusses how Thomas Alison Ascott, for whom the NSW town of Tascott is named, not only stole credit for first growing and processing sugar in australia from Black convict James Williams, but was himself a bit of a dud at growing sugar when he tried

Co-Incidentally, i’ve also been reviewing bits of The Wealth of Nations, which begins with Adam Smith asking why it is that some societies are more productive than others. Comparing what he calls “rude” societies with “improved” societies, he concludes in part that the extra productivity in “improved” societies is due to ““the skill, dexterity, and JUDGMENT with which its labour is generally applied”

i was instantly reminded of the idea of superior (european) JUDGMENT when i first read the story of James Williams and australian sugar in the book BLACK CONVICTS, where Santilla Chingaipe writes:

It might well have been widely known that Williams did the actual cultivation but that would have been the equivalent of saying the soil did it, or the rain: recognition could only come to the white hand.

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/first-sugar

#AustralianHistory #Slavery #Sugar
#WhiteDelusionsOfSuperiorJudgment
#ForACountryThatNeverHadSlavesWeSureManagedToGetALotOfFreeHelpFromBlackPeople

Echoes of the past written in brick and stone.

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #Tasmania #Ruins #PortArthur #AustralianHistory #ConvictHeritage #HeritageSite

Echoes of the past written in brick and stone.

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#Photo #Photography #2PeepsAndACamera #Australia #Tasmania #Ruins #PortArthur #AustralianHistory #ConvictHeritage #HeritageSite

#OnThisDay, 8 Mar 1978, over 400 women challenged Queensland’s ban on political marches by marching through Brisbane, Australia, demanding the end of violence against women, the right to abortion and lesbian rights. 51 people were arrested.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #AustralianHistory

New video out today, my first covering a topic in the ACT!

Learn about what I think was one of the most important events in Australia's 20th century history, the 1940 Canberra air disaster

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_q_W69AyI8

#Canberra #Disasters #Australia #aviation #history #AustralianHistory #ww2

A glimpse through the branches at a home long forgotten.

Hampton, South Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #southaustralia #RuralLife #AustralianHistory #OldHomestead #Ruins

If these walls could talk, imagine the stories they’d tell.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝟐 𝓟𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝓒𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #southaustralia #RusticCharm #HistoricArchitecture #StoneWalls #OldDoor #AustralianHistory