Something Like Slavery: Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842-1945 by Shirleene Robinson

Something Like Slavery: Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842-1945

Shirleene Robinson

358 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race medium-paced

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The rapid economic development of Queensland in the 19th- and early 20th-centuries was due in a large way to the work of Aboriginal children. Some as young as two years old, they were forced to work with white people building the region’s industri...

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