Macknade Plantation and Mill
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Cartographic Name
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Macknade Plantation and Mill
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Identifier
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SITE-NADE
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category
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Plantation
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temporalCoverage
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1874-1908
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sourceOrganization
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Polynesian Labourers Act 1868 (Queensland)
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text
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"Since Pacific Islanders were not protected by any government as the Indian, Chinese, Cingalese and Javanese were, masters felt they could act with a degree of impunity, safe in the knowledge that no meddlesome officials would protest or more importantly, interfere, if abuse were detected" Labour History. Saunders, Kay. Workers in Bondage. University of Queensland Press, 1982, p.14.
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"My grandfather was brought to the Herbert River to cut cane at Macknade. He told us they lived in long huts, with dirt floors, lined up near the fields. They had little choice, the bell told them when to get up, when to eat, when to sleep." Activist History. Australian South Sea Islander United Council. Fields of Sorrow. ASSIUC Press, 2000, p.58.
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"gentlemen of the flashing blade." Historical Fiction. Naish, John. Cruel Field. Hutchinson, 1962, p.61.