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Name
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Boydtown Plantation
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Type of carceral site
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Plantation
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Dates of use
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1847 – 1847
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Quote
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He'll grind out a fortune, rule this blasted colony,
While I sit here rotting between editions.
Poetry, Narrative Poetry.
Webb, Francis. 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.
Webpage.
Australian National Maritime Museum. Blackbirding: Australia's Slave Trade? Australian National Maritime Museum, 2019. https://www.sea.museum/first-nations/blackbirding-australias-slave-trade. Accessed 20 May 2026.
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Authority
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Exploited legal grey area for his labour scheme
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Contact
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Kieren
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identifier
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SITE-BYDP
