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Name
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Cook Islands
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Type of carceral site
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Blackbirding
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Dates of use
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1847 – 1906
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Quote
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He told Williams […] to bring all the Puka-Puans aboard his ship […] but as soon as the boat touched the beach he jumped out, waved his arms […] and yelled 'Run for your lives! Blackbirders!'
Autobiography.
Frisbie, Florence Ngatokura. Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka: The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter. Translated by Robert Dean Frisbie, Macmillan, 1948, p. 31.
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Huneree, t'ousan'ee, milionee milee! / Hippo! Hippo! Hooray! / Go t'hell t' Call-ay-oh! […] It was a slaver chantey, for in the old days the blackbirders used to capture South Sea Islanders […] Two hundred were stolen from Puka-Puka.
Autobiography.
Frisbie, Florence Ngatokura. Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka: The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter. Translated by Robert Dean Frisbie, Macmillan, 1948, p. 11.
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the polynesians never / could find Australia good; and, if they knew / this Land at any time, / they turned away / from her hostility to dreams of ease …. / they failed to find her bright Alcheringa.
Epic poem.
Ingamells, Rex. The Great South Land: An Epic Poem. Georgian House, 1951, p. 76.
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Authority
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Queensland Polynesian Labourers Act (1868); Pacific Islanders protection Act 1872 & 1875 (UK); Peru Immigration Law 1861
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Archives and sources
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Cook Islands Library and Museum Society (Rarotonga).
National Library of Australia (Missionary correspondence, "Slavers in the South Seas").
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Contact
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Jerry/Kieren
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identifier
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SITE-CK