Black founders : the unknown story of Australia's first black settlers /

Black founders : the unknown story of Australia's first black settlers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pybus, Cassandra.
Imprint:	Sydney : UNSW Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 222 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Africans -- Australia -- History. Africans. Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. Australia. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11147142

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ISBN:	1429410779 9781429410779
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In this compelling new book, distinguished historian and writer Cassandra Pybus reveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers - a fact which profoundly complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. Most of these black founders were originally slaves from America who had sought freedom with the British during the American Revolution only to find themselves abandoned and unemployed in England when the war was over. Pybus' stories include the notorious runaway 'Black Caesar', who became our first bushranger, and the wonderfully subversive Billie Bl.
Other form:	Print version: Pybus, Cassandra. Black founders. Sydney : UNSW Press, 2006 0868408492

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on sources
Prologue
1 Liberty or death
2 Fleeing the founding fathers
3 Starving in the streets of London
4 Back to Africa
5 Bound for the fatal shore
6 Recalcitrant convicts at Sydney Cove
7 The dread of perishing by famine
8 An incorrigibly stubborn black
9 Sportsman to General Grose
10 Tugging at the oars
playing in the band
11 The Old Commodore
Afterword
Appendix: Biographies of the black founders
Notes
Bibliography
Index.