Marked Queensland

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Blackbirding in the Pacific

Ships recruited, often by trickery or force, tens of thousands of people from Pacific islands such as Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands to work on sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji. Most were deported from Australia after 1906.

Place
Queensland · Vanuatu · Solomon Islands · FijiOceania
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IRecruiters and their ships
  2. IIKidnapping or contract?
  3. IIICane fields of Queensland
  4. IVFiji
  5. VDeportation
  6. VIAustralian South Sea Islanders today

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Faith Bandler
  • Robert Towns

Objects

  • Labour trade records
  • Ships’ logs

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1863 to 1906. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?