Boydtown Plantation
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Cartographic Name
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Boydtown Plantation
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Identifier
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SITE-BYDP
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category
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Plantation
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temporalCoverage
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1847
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sourceOrganization
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exploited legal grey area for his labour scheme
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text
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"He’ll grind out a fortune, rule this blasted colony,
While I sit here rotting between editions." Historical Narrative Poetry. Webb, Francis. Our Roving Reporter: A Drum for Ben Boyd. Angus & Robertson, 1956, p.23.
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"In 1847 Benjamin Boyd.. shipped 65 men from New Caledonia and Vanuatu to Eden on the south coast of New South Wales. Boyd’s experiment in finding cheap indentured labour among the Pacific Islands was a failure, but he had foreshadowed a labour practice that was in many instances to hold all the hallmarks of slavery." Public History. Australian National Maritime Museum. Blackbirding: Australia’s Slave Trade? Australian National Maritime Museum, 2019. n.p.