'Me write myself' : the free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 / Leonie Stevens.
Series: Australian historyPublisher: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xliv, 356 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925495638
- Free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47
- Bullrer
- Rolepa
- King Tippo
- Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
- Jeanneret, Henry
- Clark, Robert, 1827-1877
- Arthur, Walter George, approximately 1820-1861
- Arthur, Mary Anne, approximately 1819-1871
- Wooraddy, died 1842
- Planobeena
- King Alexander
- McSweeney, Hannah
- Smith, Fanny, 1834-1905
- Bullrer
- Rolepa
- King Tippo
- Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
- Jeanneret, Henry
- Clark, Robert, 1827-1877
- Arthur, Walter George, approximately 1820-1861
- Arthur, Mary Anne, approximately 1819-1871
- Wooraddy, died 1842
- Planobeena
- King Alexander
- McSweeney, Hannah
- Smith, Fanny, 1834-1905
- Friend Inquiry
- Friend Inquiry
- History - Frontier conflict - Tasmania - Black War
- Politics and Government - Political action
- Politics and Government - Political action - Non-Indigenous
- Politics and Government - Political action - Petitions
- Race relations - Violent
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Relocation -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna
- Exiles -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions
- Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Exiles
- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders island -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Correspondence
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Removal
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Removal
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna
- Wybalenna (Flinders Island Tas SK55-02)
- Flinders Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Tasmania
- Tasmania -- Flinders Island
- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- History
- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- History -- 19th century
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Australian
- Australian
- 305.89915 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 305.89915 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 68356 |
Contains biographical information.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [332]-342) and index.
contents note: ch. 1 40,000 Years to Exile -- ch. 2 Exiled to Great Island -- ch. 3 The Promise of Wybalenna -- ch. 4 The Battle for VDL Souls -- ch. 5 Empire, Agency and a Humble Petition -- ch. 6 Defeating Wybalenna.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen’s Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed to speak for themselves. This book changes that. Penned by the exiles during their fifteen years at the settlement called Wybalenna, items in the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters and petitions offer a compelling corrective to traditional portrayals of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people’s final days. The exiles did not see themselves as prisoners, but as a Free People. Seen through their own writing, the community at Wybalenna was vibrant, complex and evolving. Rather than a depressed people simply waiting for death, their own words reveal a politically astute community engaged in a fifteen-year campaign for their own freedom: one which was ultimately successful. ‘Me Write Myself’ is a compelling story that will profoundly affect understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history.
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