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  • Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia - Santilla Chingaipe

    Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia - Santilla Chingaipe
    Oct 29 2024
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    Title: Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia
    Author: Santilla Chingaipe
    Narrator: Unknown
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-29-2024
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
    Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Australia & Oceania

    Summary:
    The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In this deeply researched and illuminating book, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh understanding of this fatal shore, showing how empire, slavery, race and memory have shaped this nation. On the First Fleet of 1788, at least 15 convicts were of African descent. By 1840 the number of Black transportees had risen to over 500. Among them were John Caesar, who became Australia’s first bushranger, and Billy Blue – the stylishly dressed ferryman who gave his name to Sydney’s Blues Point. There was also David Stuurman, a revered South African chief transported for anti-colonial insurrection, and William Cuffay – a prominent London Chartist who led the development of Australia’s labour movement. Two of the youngest were cousins from Mauritius – girls aged just 9 and 12 – sentenced over a failed attempt to poison their mistress. But although some of these lives were documented and their likenesses depicted (including in the National Portrait Gallery and a sketch of those acquitted of treason after the Eureka stockade), their stories have been erased from history: even their descendants are often unaware of their ancestry. In these stories spanning Africa, the Americas and Europe, Black Convicts also uncovers Australia’s hidden links to slavery, which both powered the British Empire and inspired the convict system itself. Situating European settlement in its global context, Chingaipe shows the injustice of dispossession was powered by the engine of labour exploitation. By uncovering lives whitewashed out of our story, Black Convicts will change the way we think about who we are.
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    8 hrs
  • Reasons to Look at the Night Sky - Danielle Daniel

    Reasons to Look at the Night Sky - Danielle Daniel
    Oct 29 2024
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    Title: Reasons to Look at the Night Sky
    Author: Danielle Daniel
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-29-2024
    Publisher: Tundra Books
    Genres: Kids, General, Action & Adventure, Health & Family

    Summary:
    A sensitive middle grade novel in verse about a space-obsessed girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut — and begins to see the world differently when a substitute teacher enters her orbit. Luna has always loved the night sky. She's an eleven-year-old who knows everything there is to know about space, and dreams of one day becoming an astronaut. The first step in her plan to get there is to ace the space unit in her science class and secure a spot in NASA's summer space camp. But when Luna's teacher is unexpectedly replaced with a substitute, Ms. Manitowabi, who is looking to shake up science class by bringing in art, Luna's carefully laid plans are crushed. And that's not all that's shifting in Luna's life — changes at home and in her friendships have her feeling topsy-turvy. What on Planet Earth is happening? Reasons to Look at the Night Sky is an endearing, poetic look at the inner world of a middle schooler grappling with change from acclaimed author and illustrator Danielle Daniel.
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    Less than 1 minute