Blue Tier Tin Mines
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Cartographic Name
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Blue Tier Tin Mines
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Identifier
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SITE-BM
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category
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Penal Settlement
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temporalCoverage
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1874-1913
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sourceOrganization
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Masters and Servant Acts (Tasmania, 1856-1870s)
Regulation of Mines Act 1881 (Tasmania)
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text
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“[A] rough camp of huts straggling up the ranges, with shafts cut deep into the hills, and miners’ huts mixed with those of the black labourers.” Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart: Royal Society of Tasmania, 1886, p. 72.
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"we cannot regard the situation of the Aboriginal females amongst that class of men as differing materially from that of slavery… The object of these men in retaining the women, most of whom it is asserted were originally kidnapped, is obviously for the gratification of their lust, and for the sake of the labour they can extract from them" Australian History. Edmonds, Penelope. “Collecting Looerryminer’s ‘Testimony’: Aboriginal Women, Sealers, and Quaker Humanitarian Anti-Slavery Thought and Action in the Bass Strait Islands.” Australian Historical Studies, 2014, p.14-15.
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"The disappearance of all the young children among the natives compels us to the inference that they were destroyed, doubtless on account of the difficulty of conveying them about in the rapid flights from place to place which the blacks now practised in the perpetration of their murders" Life Writing. Meredith, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years. John Murray, 1852, p.201.
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Source
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Tasmanian Archives (Hobart)
State Library of Tasmania
Mitchell Library (Sydney)
National Library of Australia
Lyndall Ryan, The Aboriginal Tasmanians (1981).
Kristyn Harman, Aboriginal Convicts (2012).
Cassandra Pybus, Community of Thieves (1991).
Jackman, “Tasmanian Sealing and Mining” (Papers & Proceedings Royal Society of Tasmania, 1967–68).