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Dark cargoes: the Australian slaving system

Australia, 1992
film

Archival material, descendants of Pacific islanders and historian Robert Dansie recall the foundation of misery upon which the Queensland sugar industry was l..

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Sugar Slaves

Australia, 1995
Similarity: 82%

Close to Slavery: Black Work in White History

Australia, 1988
Similarity: 75%

Sugar from Queensland

Australia, 1966
Similarity: 74%

Kidnapped

Australia, 1989
Similarity: 73%

A Taste of energy

Australia, 1971
Similarity: 72%

A Spoonful of sugar

Australia, 1962
Similarity: 72%

Frontier: stories from white Australia's forgotten war: Part two: worse than slavery itself 1830-1860

Australia, 1996
Similarity: 71%

Australian diary. No. 075

Australia, 1954
Similarity: 70%

From gaol to gentry

Australia, 1985
Similarity: 70%

Sugar and Fiji

Australia, 1961
Similarity: 70%

Queensland Centenary Story, 1859-1959

Australia, 1959
Similarity: 70%

Australian diary. No. 032

Australia, 1950
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Pioneer city

Australia, 1966
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Who'll do the dirty work?

Australia, 1985
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Economic development

Australia, 1959
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Susso kids

Australia, 1975
Similarity: 68%

And their ghosts may be heard

Australia, 1975
Similarity: 68%

Tropical north

Australia, 1954
Similarity: 68%
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