Group of Australian South Sea Islander women labourers on a sugar cane plantation near Cairns, Queensland, about 1895
In 1863 a group of 67 South Sea Islanders were brought to Queensland to perform manual labour in the cotton and sugar industries. They were the first of more than 62,000 Pacific Island men, women and children who were transported to Australia over the next 40 years. Some were kidnapped, or ‘blackbirded’, others were misled.
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John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Neg: 63220
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