The Guardian • slavery

• August 28, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

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...

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• August 28, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Marx 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...

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• August 28, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

Capitalism, racism, and slavery – how they are connected

In a modern society, it is hard to imagine that our ancestors ever supported or tolerated slavery.

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• August 28, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

How 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...

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• August 28, 2023
• THE GUARDIAN

African 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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