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Dark convicts : ex-slaves on the First Fleet / Judy Johnson.

Dark convicts : ex-slaves on the First Fleet / Judy Johnson.
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ISBN 1742589189
9781742589183
Author Johnson, Judy, 1961- (author)
Uniform Title Poems. Selections
Title Dark convicts : ex-slaves on the First Fleet / Judy Johnson.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2017.
©2016.
Description 138 pages ; 21 cm.
Series UWAP poetry series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137)
Contents George Washington's Lost Slave Villanelle -- Dumped Shop-Soiled -- Counsel for the Defence -- Caught Black Handed -- Eleven Black Scoundrels bound for the First Fleet -- John Martin Awaits His Fate in Newgate Prison -- Our Cerberus King Guards the Gates -- Of the Most Dangerous Disposition -- Farewell and Adieu Old England -- All Falls Apart on the High Sea -- Thirst -- The Fleet Reaches Its Destination -- Richard Johnson, Chaplain, and Surgeon General John White Confer on the Outbreak of Dysentery -- Lieutenant William Bradley's Dark Thoughts -- George Worgan Writes Home -- Surgeon General John White Muses on the Usefulness of Having a Negro Convict Attend the Colony's Sorties -- Church Tree -- The Female Convicts Have Landed -- Night of the Lightning -- The Governor Addresses his Fowl Yard of Convicts -- A List of Do's and Don'ts to be Applied When Building a New Colony -- The Surgeon General considers the Value of Sweet Tea --
Ways that a Troublesome Black Convict Can Escape Hanging -- John Martin's Twenty Five Lashes -- A Early Report of Convict Behaviour in the New Colony -- The Outraged Morals of Lieutenant Ralph Clarke -- Reverend Richard Johnson Pens a Quick Note to Governor Phillip -- A Few Entries from the Logbook of the Superintendent of Pain -- Black Caesar's Pantoum or The Bear is Hungry -- John White Goes in Search of Edibles -- Daniel Southwell Considers The Natives -- Judge Advocate David Collins on Venereal Disease Part 1:1788 -- Death Tree -- Game Shooters for the Governor -- The Night Watch -- Jacob Nagle Comments on the First Woman Hung in the Colonies -- The Judge Advocate Muses on a Solution To Rid the Colony of its Rat Plague -- Petition, July 1789 -- David Collins' Punishment Rations -- John Randall Goes Head Hunting -- No One Believes it's Real Marriage in New South Wales -- David Collins on Venereal Disease Part 2:1791 -- John Martin's Fifty Acres --
The Colony's First Bushranger, Black Caesar Courted Death For Years -- A Summary of Negro Thefts and Returns in the New Colony -- My Mary.
Summary It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebears' lives, both before transportation and afterwards, in the fledgling colony of New South Wales.
Subjects African Americans -- Australia.
Blacks -- Australia -- Poetry
Australian poetry
Convicts -- Australia -- Biography
Convicts -- Australia -- 1788-1851
Australian poetry -- 21st century
Prisoners -- Australia -- Poetry
New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
Series UWAP poetry series
Call number 2021.140
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