Blood Revenge Murder on the Hawkesbury 1799 |
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| Author:
| Stewart, Lyn |
| ISBN: | 978-1-925078-46-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2015 |
| Publisher: | Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Blood Revenge examines the first time that white men were held to account in a criminal court of New South Wales for killing Australian Aborigines. It happened in 1799, just 11 years after theNew South Wales colony began. This book answers the disturbing question: Why were five men found guilty of killing two Aborigines--yet they were never punished? The story lays bare the nature of black-white relations at the colony's Hawkesbury River frontier settlement. Governor John...
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Blood Revenge examines the first time that white men were held to account in a criminal court of New South Wales for killing Australian Aborigines. It happened in 1799, just 11 years after theNew South Wales colony began. This book answers the disturbing question: Why were five men found guilty of killing two Aborigines--yet they were never punished? The story lays bare the nature of black-white relations at the colony's Hawkesbury River frontier settlement. Governor John Hunter tried to carry out his orders and stop the wanton killing of Aborigines. Inevitably, there was a divide between policy and practice. In Blood Revenge the politics of this murder case reads like a missing chapter of Doc Evatt's Rum Rebellion.