'I said no' – Nie's refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia
- Written by: Penny Edmonds, Matthew Flinders Professor, Flinders University
A Pacific island woman with a child planting sugar cane in a field, Bingara, Queensland, c 1897. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.In 1881 Nie (also known as Nai), a Pacific Islander woman, walked off “Virginia” plantation, south of Maryborough, in the colony of Queensland.
Crossing through cane fields, she fled in the...
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