The Beachcombers, Or, Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack
The Beachcombers, Or, Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack

Author: Gilbert Bishop

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019792858

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Based on true events, this historical fiction novel follows the journey of a young man who gets involved in the slave trading industry under the British flag, ultimately questioning his morals and values. The story showcases the brutality and inhumanity of the slave trade and the toll it takes on all involved. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Beachcombers, Or Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack (Classic Reprint)
The Beachcombers, Or Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack (Classic Reprint)

Author: Gilbert Bishop

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781332767298

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Excerpt from The Beachcombers, or Slave-Trading Under the Union Jack The enormities herein related are no new development. The detestable trafic has existed for nearly a quarter of a century, in which time very many thousands of natives of the beautiful islands of the Pacific have been ruthlessly entrapped and kidnapped, cruelly treated, and worked to death. The shameful tale has been told again and yet again in pamphlets and blue-books and history, but the effect has been merely transient. Pamphlets, blue-books, and histories are seldom read except by those conversant with the subjects of which they treat. It may happen, however, that a romance embodying some startling incidents of the nefarious system will attract the attention of the British public to the evil, and that more powerful pens will be enlisted to attack the infamous trade, in which event the days of the labour traffic are assuredly numbered. It will thus be apparent that The Beachcombers must be placed in the objectionable category of novels with a purpose nevertheless it is hoped that the spice of romance pervading the plot, the faithful portrayal of native customs, and the stirring adventures with which the story abounds will lighten the shadow cast by the barbarous slave trade and will impart intrinsic interest to the narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The White Pacific
The White Pacific

Author: Gerald Horne

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2007-05-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0824865170

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Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

Author: Alistair Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1009022393

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Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.