Francis Island
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Cartographic Name
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Francis Island
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Identifier
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SITE-FRA
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category
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Blackbirded Island
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temporalCoverage
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1860s- 1904
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sourceOrganization
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Polynesian Labourers Act 1868 (QLD)
Pacific Island Labourers Acts (1880, 1884, 1885, 1892 QLD)
Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 (Cth)
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"Marama—who was in charge of one of the boats—told me on the second evening that many of these people had been driven down to the beach by the chiefs and forced into the three boats. Those of them that didn’t hustle and get in quick were cut at and slashed about with sharks’ teeth swords and spears. And when the boats came alongside the barque I saw that they were splashed with blood from stem to stem." Colonial Adventure Fiction. Becke, Louis. Pacific Tales. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, p.166.
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"If I thought you would report me, you would never see Maryborough, as it would be very easy to put you out of the way, and that I surely could not be so cruel, as it would completely ruin him and his family. […] I took about a wine-glassful of wine out of tumbler, standing at the time in the cabin in front of the captain’s berth. […] The next thing I remember was finding myself in the ship’s hold among the islanders, handcuffed and chained" Historical Non-Fiction. Docker, Edward Wybergh. The Blackbirders: A Brutal Story of the Kanaka Slave-Trade. Angus & Robertson, 1971, p.73.