The Life and Death of ‘Black’ John Goff: Aspects of the Black Convict Contribution to Resistance Patterns During the Transportation Era in Eastern Australia

Duffield, Ian

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.1987.tb00357.x

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“…Historian Henry Reynolds (1979, p. 18; 1987, pp. 78–80) first mentioned Aboriginal bushrangers in his pioneering work on frontier history that was released in the 1970s and 1980s and since then, there has been sporadic interest in a handful of select non‐white figures (Biber, 2008; Duffield, 1987; Harman, 2012; Kociumbas, 2001; Noonan, 2000; Parry, 2007; Prentis, 1991; Pybus, 2006; Wood, 1997). Foster's (2022a) book, Boundary Crossers , is both recent and an outlier.…”

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Bandits, heroes and villains: A view from a settler colony

Foster

2024

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Abstract‘Bushrangers’ were late 18th to early 20th‐century bandits who lived in the Australian bush through the proceeds of crime, but today, they are national legends. A particular constellation of factors led to the white male bushranger's status as a national hero in Australia. By charting the development of bushranging historiography alongside bushranging in practice and the bushranging myth, this article will demonstrate the distinctive Australian and settler colonial dimensions of this bandit tradition. In describing how white bushranging men came to national prominence, the piece will also draw attention to those excluded from this legend—women and people of colour, with particular reference to Aboriginal people. The Australian bushranging myth, as it exists today, was not an organic or natural development. It was actively constructed by white settlers, including white settler historians.

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Bandits, heroes and villains: A view from a settler colony

Foster

2024

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“…Research across imperial and colonial networks revealed the diversity of the convict population (Curthoys 2002:146). It became evident that rather than solely comprising white people, Australia's penal settlements had also been populated by numerous people of colour transported to the Australian penal settlements from places as diverse as the Cape Colony, Corfu, Bermuda, India, New Zealand and China (Nichols and Shergold 1988:32, 36; see also Duffield 1985Duffield , 1986Duffield , 1987Duffield , 1999aDuffield , 1999bDuly 1979:39;Malherbe 1980Malherbe , 1985Malherbe , 2001Malherbe , 2002aMalherbe , 2002bPybus 2006). While the newly emerging transnational histories of transportation shed light on the nascent multiculturalism apparent in the Australian penal colonies, one small yet highly significant cohort of convicts continued to be overlooked.…”

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