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Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand

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This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked.
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This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked. After August 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape, the former slave-owners were paid compensation for the loss of their ‘property’. New research has begun to show that many beneficiaries had ties to other parts of the British Empire, including the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Through a range of case studies, contributors to this collection trace the movement of people, goods, capital, and practices from the Caribbean to the new Australasian settler colonies. Chapters consider a range of places, people and themes to reveal the varied ways that slavery continued to shape imperial relationships, economic networks, and racial labour regimes after 1833.
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Price: £90.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Publication Date: 31 March 2026
ISBN: 9781526184818
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Colonialism and imperialism, Social and cultural history
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Foreword: The silence of slavery – Yarning about freedom in my family
Carol Dowling

Introduction: Australian and New Zealand legacies of slavery
Zoë Laidlaw and Jane Lydon

1 Profession and patrimony: Australian colonial governors and British slavery, 1788–1901
Zoë Laidlaw

2 Slavery, manumission and abolition in the life of Lachlan Macquarie
Annemarie McLaren

3 Slavery and the foundation of the Swan River colony: The Stirling, Mangles and Prinsep families
Aoife Nugent

4 Measuring Noah’s ark: Western Australian legacies of British slavery
Jane Lydon and Xavier Reader

5 Landed families, intergenerational wealth and the creation of a ‘pastoral interest’ in Western Australia, 1830–50
Jeremy Martens

6 Slavery and South Australia’s colonisation: Resituating George Fife Angas
Nikita Vanderbyl

7 Transatlantic slavery, trans-Tasman mobility and Indigenous history in New Zealand
Angela McCarthy and Angela Wanhalla

8 Blackness and slavery in the aftermath of abolition: The case of South Sea Islanders in Australia
Emma Christopher

9 The ‘common practice of kidnapping and slavery’: Recovering the hidden history of pearling in Northern Australia
Malcolm Allbrook

10 Legacies of British slave ownership: Imperial reach and the reconfiguration of labour regimes
Keith McClelland

11 Legacies of a colonial past: Slaves, convicts, free workers and the Australian commons
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart