An Echo of Black Slavery: Emancipation, Forced Labour and Australia in 1933

Paisley, Fiona

doi:10.1080/1031461x.2013.877506

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“…In African American newspapers, “White Australia” referred to labor management as well as to immigration policy, and when writers looked to Australia, they saw conditions for non‐white workers that looked strikingly similar to those in the Jim Crow South. Historians (Evans & Scott, ; Gray, , ; Holland, ; Kidd, ; McGrath, ; Paisley, ; Walden, ) have called attention to debates at the time and since as to whether the exploitation of Indigenous Australians was slavery or not, but certainly Aboriginal people often received no wages. Black newspapers pulled no punches.…”

Section: Australian Labor In the African American Pressmentioning

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Black Internationalism's Shifting Alliances: African American Newspapers, the White Australia Policy, and Indigenous Australians, 1919–1948

Corbould

2017

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African American newspapers frequently ran reports and stories about Indigenous Australians and Australia's racial governance between 1919 and 1948, except for the years during World War II when thousands of African American servicemen were stationed in Australia. The black American press was extremely critical of “White Australia.” African American newspaper writers used the phrase “White Australia” to refer both to the famed or notorious Australian immigration laws and to prevailing race relations in labor management. When they reported on Indigenous Australians, they took careful note of conditions that were akin to American slavery and its aftermath and remarked upon the similar regimes of racial governance. As far as the black American press was concerned, Indigenous Australians were one of the many nodes that comprised a worldwide alliance of colonized people; black internationalism included them, too. From 1942 to 1944, however, the press placed that alliance on hold. Newspapers instead focused on the surprisingly benign treatment they said black American troops received from white Australians. As it became clear that the Allies were likely to triumph, black American newspapers returned to criticism of “White Australia” and to an abstract bond with Aboriginal Australians, as they pressed forward with claims to universal human rights and with agitation to end all colonization as part of the worldwide return to peace.

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Section: Australian Labor In the African American Pressmentioning

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Black Internationalism's Shifting Alliances: African American Newspapers, the White Australia Policy, and Indigenous Australians, 1919–1948

Corbould

2017

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“…22 As historian Fiona Paisley has shown, activism such as that of ASAPS served to bring the plight of Aboriginal workers to attention in London, Europe, and even in Australia itself. 23 Horrific reports also made their way into American newspapers, no more so than in very late 1930 and well into 1931, when newspapers in cities and towns as widespread as Fort Myers, Florida and Oakland, California to Port Huron, Michigan and Vernon, Texas picked up an Associated Press item out of far northern Australia. There, they reported, white Australian cattlemen were exploiting Aboriginal stockmen.…”

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Australian Afterlives of Atlantic Slavery: Belatedness and Transpacific American Studies

Corbould

Emmett²

2018

J. Am. Stud.

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This paper takes up the concept of the "afterlife" in order to reflect upon the logics of exclusion, belatedness, and succession that have characterised key interventions in transpacific American Studies. That transpacific American Studies might be thought of as "belated" is less to do with the actual chronology of the field than with the way that even early, ground-breaking scholars situated themselves in the field on the one hand and the way that others have engaged and, at times, celebrated the fantasised atemporality of the region itself on the other.

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“…Lydon, ‘The Bloody Skirt of Settlement, 46‐70; Edmonds, ‘Collecting Looerryminer's ‘testimony’; Paisley, ‘An Echo of Black Slavery’.…”

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Anti‐slavery in Australia: Picturing the 1838 Myall Creek Massacre

Lydon

2017

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During the 1830s, white settlers in the Australian colonies sought to consolidate their possession of Aboriginal land, prompting tension between colonists and Aboriginal people, and between settlers and British humanitarian interests. In this essay, I examine competing representations of frontier clashes, and particularly the 1838 Myall Creek massacre, and their links to larger imperial debates. At the height of their influence, British humanitarians drew upon the discursive strategies of the antislavery movement in seeking to mobilize concern for Indigenous Australians. In a context where Aboriginal people were stereotyped as primitive and non‐human, counter‐images and strategies drawn from antislavery discourse might constitute them as objects of white compassion. Focusing blame upon the convict perpetrators allowed elite humanitarians to displace responsibility from the system of colonization itself.

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An Echo of Black Slavery: Emancipation, Forced Labour and Australia in 1933

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Black Internationalism's Shifting Alliances: African American Newspapers, the White Australia Policy, and Indigenous Australians, 1919–1948

Black Internationalism's Shifting Alliances: African American Newspapers, the White Australia Policy, and Indigenous Australians, 1919–1948

Australian Afterlives of Atlantic Slavery: Belatedness and Transpacific American Studies

Anti‐slavery in Australia: Picturing the 1838 Myall Creek Massacre

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