The Guardian • slavery
Sugar and blackbirding
The Queensland sugar industry annually generates $2 billion, and this industry began with indentured labour. In July 2021 the mayor of Bundaberg, Jack Dempsey, made...
Read moreMarx and Robinson Crusoe: British Imperialism and the slave trade
Marxist literary criticism explains a literary work, a novel, through an analysis of the human-social relationships which reflect the economic base of the story, rather...
Read moreCapitalism, racism, and slavery – how they are connected
In a modern society, it is hard to imagine that our ancestors ever supported or tolerated slavery.
Read moreHow your super is fighting modern slavery
Most Australians think slavery has been consigned to the scrapheap of history. They’d be shocked to know that it is very much alive in this...
Read moreAfrican slaves in colonial Australia
The Melbourne Gaol is famous for being the place where the bushranger, Ned Kelly, was hanged in 1880. In the early 1970s I saw a...
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