'Me write myself' : the free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 / Leonie Stevens.
Publication details: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2017.Description: xliv, 356 pages : maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925495638
- Free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- History -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Correspondence
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Removal
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Flinders Island -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Wybalenna Correspondence
- Aboriginal Australians -- Tasmania -- Removal
- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- History -- 19th century
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Flinders Island (Tas.) -- Social conditions
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- History
- Wybalenna (Tas.) -- Social conditions
- Australian
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 305.899 STE | Available | 066950 |
Contains biographical information.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [332]-342) and index.
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.