Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? [Paperback]

Introduction. An equal portion of liberty  1. No slavery in a free land?  2. Poor creatures. Antislavery and transportation, 1789-1807  3. In spite of all the Saints, 1807-1833  4. Abolition, systematic colonization, and the end of transportation, 1830-1840  5. Is not the New Hollander a man and a brother? Abolition and Genocide  6. Anti-slavery in Australia after Emancipation, 1834-1900. We but enliven labour with the lash  7. Modern Slavery and Australia

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution.

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australias colonial past and its legacies in the present. She is interested in the ways that popular and especially visual cultures have shaped ideas and debates about race, identity and culture that persist today.

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution. The anti-slavery campaign was deeply entwined with the administration of the empire and its diverse peoples, as well as the radical changes demanded by industrialization and rapid social change in Britain. Abolition posed problems to which colonial expansion provided the answer, intimately linking the end of slavery to systematic colonization and Indigenous dispossession. By definl£