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Chinderah Plantation

Name
Chinderah Plantation
Type of carceral site
Plantation
Dates of use
1860 – 1904
Quote
An old lady told me there was a lot of bones at Fingal, on the other side of the lighthouse, and the wind would uncover them. And when we were kids, we used to walk along there and we'd find almost whole skulls there.
Oral History/Aboriginal History.
Isobel Slockee qtd. in Rieby, Inge. "Isobel Slockee Oral History Interview." NSW Bicentennial Oral History Collection [sound recording], NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, 1987.
He worked on a cane farm in Eviron, living in a bark hut and eating only herrings in tomato sauce.
South Sea Islander History/Thesis.
Davis, Emelda. Children of the Sugar Slaves: Black and Resilient. University of Technology Sydney, 2020, p. 68.
Authority
New South Wales Government
location
Chinderah
Contact
Kieren
identifier
SITE-BUND
Item sets
Carceral Sites