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Name
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Maewo
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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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In Maewo in 1899, such 'good colonisers' also acted with benevolance when the white crew allowed the islanders to relax in the fresh water, in coherence with the imagine [sic] of their good treatment to workers: 'We took as many of our islanders ashore here who choose to land and have a swim in the lovely clear and cool fresh water river, and most of them availed themselves of the opportunity.'
PhD Thesis, History, Critical Theory, and Anthropology.
University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum, Rannie Papers, Cruise of the Flora (1885) — entitled 'By Surf Beat Rocks and Coral Strands' Transcribed by Anna Bartos, starting 11 September 1995, p. 3 qtd. in Tiapa Blanco, Francisco. "Seascapes of Fear: Blackbirding and Colonial Subjectivity in the Southwest Pacific at the End of the 19th Century." The University of Queensland, School of Social Science, 2024, p. 197.
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Authority
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Queensland Polynesian Labourers Act 1868; Pacific Island Labourers Acts (1880, 1884, 1885); Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 (Cth)
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Archives and sources
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Tiapa Blanco, Francisco. "Seascapes of Fear: Blackbirding and Colonial Subjectivity in the Southwest Pacific at the End of the 19th Century." The University of Queensland, School of Social Science, 2024.
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Contact
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Jerry/Kieren
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identifier
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SITE-MWO