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Title: Blood Revenge: Murder on the Hawkesbury 1799
Author: STEWART LYN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2015
Imprint: ROSENBERG
Price: $29.95
Publishing status: Active
Blood Revenge examines the first time that white men were held to account in a criminal court of New South Wales for killing Australian Aborigines. It happened in 1799, just 11 years after the
New South Wales colony began. This book answers the disturbing question: Why were five men found guilty of killing two Aborigines—yet they were never punished? The story lays bare the nature of black-white relations at the colony’s Hawkesbury River frontier settlement. Governor John Hunter tried to carry out his orders and stop the wanton killing of Aborigines. Inevitably, there was a divide between policy and practice. In Blood Revenge the politics of this murder case reads like a missing chapter of Doc Evatt’s Rum Rebellion.
ISBN: 9781925078466
Dimension: 225mm X 150mm