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Scientia Fellow, UNSW

South Sea Islander children in Queensland, around 1902-05. Queensland State Library

June 4, 2021

From the Caribbean to Queensland: re‑examining Australia’s ‘blackbirding’ past and its roots in the global slave trade

Emma Christopher, UNSW

Australia’s use of Pacific Islander workers in the late 19th century was part of a much bigger story of British sugar barons and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Boko Haram’s recent kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Africa’s slavery crisis. EPA/Ruth McDowall

May 12, 2014

Behind the Boko Haram headlines, slavery in Africa is the real crisis

Emma Christopher, University of Sydney

The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria is neither a new nor rare occurrence, though this does not make it any less shocking. Boko Haram has been active in Nigeria for…

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