The Blackbirders. The Recruiting of South Seas Labour for Queensland, 1863-1907.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970. 1st ed., large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, maps, pp 289. Very good condition in lightly scuffed d.j. Detailed history of blackbirding, with photographs and extracts from newspaper reports. For over forty years the cotton and sugar plantations of Queensland were worked by indentured.....