Australia and Anti-Slavery

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Notes

¹ Peter Kolchin, American Slavery 1619–1877 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), 292.

² Rae Frances, White Slaves/White Australia: Prostitution and the Making of Australian Society (Sydney: History Council of New South Wales, 2004); Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (New York: Routledge, 2003); Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann, eds, Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c.1880–1950 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

³ James Walvin, Slavery and British Society, 1776–1846 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982), 25.

⁴ Seymour Drescher, Capitalism and Anti-Slavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986).

⁵ E.g. Henry Reynolds, This Whispering in Our Hearts (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1998); Deirdre Coleman, Romantic Colonisation and British Anti-Slavery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

⁶ Elizabeth Elbourne, ‘The Sin of the Settler: The 1835–36 Select Committee on Aborigines and Debates over Virtue and Conquest in the Early Nineteenth-Century British White Settler Empire’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 4, no. 3 (2003); Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Investigating Empire: Humanitarians, Reform and the Commission of Eastern Inquiry’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40, no. 5 (December 2012): 749–68.

⁷ Tim Rowse, ‘The Identity of Indigenous Political Thought’, in Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, ed. Lisa Ford and Tim Rowse (London: Routledge 2013), 95–107; Fiona Paisley, The Lone Protestor: AM Fernando in Australia and Europe (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2012).

⁸ Alan Lester, ‘Thomas Fowell Buxton and the Networks of British Humanitarianism’, in Burden or Benefit? Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies, ed. Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 31–48.

⁹ Ann Curthoys and Jessica Mitchell, ‘“Bring this Paper to the good Governor”: Aboriginal Petitioning in Britain's Australian Colonies’, in Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire 1500–1920, ed. Saliha Belmessous (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 182–203; Zoë Laidlaw, ‘Heathens, Slaves and Aborigines: Thomas Hodgkin's Critique of Missions and Anti-Slavery’, History Workshop Journal 64, no. 1 (2007): 133–61.

¹⁰ Raymond Evans, ‘“Kings” in Brass Crescents: Defining Aboriginal Labour Patterns in Colonial Queensland’, in Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834–1920, ed. Kay Saunders (London: Croom Helm, 1984), 183–204.

¹¹ Reynolds.

¹² Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2010).

¹³ Marilyn Lake, ‘Feminism and the Gendered Politics of Antiracism, Australia 1927–1957: From Maternal Protectionism to Leftist Assimilationism’, Australian Historical Studies 29, no. 10 (1998): 91–108; Fiona Paisley, Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights, 1919–1939 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000); Alison Holland, ‘Feminism, Colonialism and Aboriginal Workers: An Anti-Slavery Crusade’, Labour History 69 (November 1995): 52–64; Bain Attwood, ‘Aboriginal History’, in Historical Disciplines in Australasia: Themes, Problems and Debates, ed. John A. Moses, a special issue of Australian Journal of Politics and History 41 (1995): 33–47.

¹⁴ Patrick Brantlinger, ‘A Short History of (Imperial) Benevolence’, in Burden or Benefit? Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies, ed. Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 13–24.

¹⁵ For the first approach see Lyn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2007); for the second see Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

¹⁶ Sybille Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).

¹⁷ Paul Gilroy, Race and the Right to Be Human (Utrecht: Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht, 2009).

¹⁸ Penelope Edmonds, Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous People and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010), 34.

¹⁹ Catherine Hall, ‘The Slave-Owner and the Settler’, in Indigenous Networks: Mobility, Connections and Exchange, ed. Jane Carey and Jane Lydon (London: Routledge, 2014).

²⁰ Newspaper printing increased during the 1820s–1830s and book printing had also increased by the 1850s. David Turley, The Culture of English Antislavery 1780–1860 (New York: Routledge, 2004), 49.

²¹ John Mackenzie, Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880–1960 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984).

²² Sharon Sliwinski, Human Rights in Camera (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011).

²³ Kevin Grant, ‘Christian Critics of Empire: Missionaries, Lantern Lectures and the Congo Reform Campaign in Britain’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 29, no. 2 (2001): 27–58; John Peffer, ‘Snap of the Whip/Crossroads of Shame: Flogging, Photography, and the Representation of Atrocity in the Congo Reform Campaign’, Visual Anthropology Review 24, no. 1 (2008): 55–77; Christina Twomey, ‘Framing Atrocity: Photography and Humanitarianism’, History of Photography 36, no. 3 (August 2012): 255–64.

²⁴ Jane Lydon, The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights (Sydney: NewSouth, 2012).

²⁵ E.g. Thomas Laqueur, ‘Mourning, Pity, and the Work of Narrative in the Making of “Humanity”’, in Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilisation of Empathy, ed. Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 31–57; Thomas Laqueur, ‘Bodies, Details, and the Humanitarian Narrative’, in The New Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989); Lauren Berlant, ed., Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (New York: Routledge, 2004); Karen Halttunen, ‘Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture’, American Historical Review 100, no. 2 (1995): 303–34; Christina Twomey, ‘Severed Hands: Authenticating Atrocity in the Congo, 1903–14’, in Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis, ed. Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller and Jay Prosser (London: Reaktion Books, 2012), 39–50.

²⁶ Courtney Baker, ‘Emmett Till, Justice, and the Task of Recognition’, Journal of American Culture 29 (2006): 111–24. For arguments for empathetic recognition see Richard Rorty, ‘Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality’, in On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993, ed. Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley (London: Basic Books, 1993); Carolyn J. Dean, The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).

²⁷ Rob Skinner and Alan Lester, ‘Humanitarianism and Empire: New Research Agendas’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40, no. 5 (2012): 729–47.

²⁸ Drescher, Capitalism; Seymour Drescher, ‘Cart Whip and Billy Roller: Antislavery and Reform Symbolism in Industrialising Britain’, Journal of Social History 15 (September 1981): 3–24; Seymour Drescher Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

²⁹ Christopher Tomlinson, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 11.

³⁰ F. H. Simmons and J. M. Burn, ‘Evaluating Australia's Response to All Forms of Trafficking: Towards Rights-Centered Reform’, Australian Law Journal 84, no. 10 (2010): 712–30.

³¹ F. H. Simmons and J. M. Burn, ‘Trafficking and Slavery in Australia: An Evaluation of Victim Support Strategies’, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 15, no. 4 (2006): 553–70.

³² Jennifer Burn, Sam Blay and Frances Simmons, ‘Combating Human Trafficking: Australia's Response to Modern Day Slavery’, Australian Law Journal 79, no. 9 (2005): 543–52.

³³ Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd, ‘All of It Is Now’, in Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, ed. Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus and Marcus Rediker (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 222–34.