From Louisiana to Queensland: how American slave owners started again in Australia
- Written by Paige Gleeson, PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania
Lorne sugar plantation in Mackay, 1874State Library QueenslandScott Morrison says “we shouldn’t be importing” the Black Lives Matter movement. But in the 1800s, Australia imported plantation owners from the American South.
Prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War, the American south produced almost all of the world’s...
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