Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand

Zoë Laidlaw is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. Jane Lydon is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.

• Foreword: The silence of slavery – Yarning about freedom in my familyCarol DowlingIntroduction: Australian and New Zealand legacies of slaveryZoë Laidlaw and Jane Lydon 1 Profession and patrimony: Australian colonial governors and British slavery, 1788–1901Zoë Laidlaw2 Slavery, manumission and abolition in the life of Lachlan Macquarie Annemarie McLaren3 Slavery and the foundation of the Swan River colony: The Stirling, Mangles and Prinsep familiesAoife Nugent4 Measuring Noah’s ark: Western Australian legacies of British slavery Jane Lydon and Xavier Reader5 Landed families, intergenerational wealth and the creation of a ‘pastoral interest’ in Western Australia, 1830–50Jeremy Martens6 Slavery and South Australia’s colonisation: Resituating George Fife AngasNikita Vanderbyl7 Transatlantic slavery, trans-Tasman mobility and Indigenous history in New ZealandAngela McCarthy and Angela Wanhalla8 Blackness and slavery in the aftermath of abolition: The case of South Sea Islanders in AustraliaEmma Christopher9 The ‘common practice of kidnapping and slavery’: Recovering the hidden history of pearling in Northern Australia Malcolm Allbrook10 Legacies of British slave ownership: Imperial reach and the reconfiguration of labour regimes Keith McClelland11 Legacies of a colonial past: Slaves, convicts, free workers and the Australian commonsHamish Maxwell-Stewart