Black Convicts (Santilla Chingaipe, Scribner)

Tuesday, 1 October 2024 Books+Publishing

In recent years, historians have increasingly shown that the past, especially in the West, was more multicultural than the monoculture so often portrayed. In Australia, where colonial history has consistently been presented as white, Santilla Chingaipe’s Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia seeks to shine a light on the overlooked...