Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers

by Cassandra Pybus

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868408492
• ISBN13: 9780868408491
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: UNSW Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"