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Introduction. 'An equal portion of liberty' -- No slavery in a free land? -- 'Poor creatures'. Antislavery and transportation, 1789-1807 -- In spite of all the Saints, 1807-1833 -- Abolition, systematic colonization, and the end of transportation, 1830-1840 -- Is not the New Hollander a man and a brother? Abolition and Genocide -- Anti-slavery in Australia after Emancipation, 1834-1900. 'We but enliven labour with the lash' -- Modern Slavery and Australia.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Language and style -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The photographic encounter -- Visibility and Photography: A Brief History -- Photographs Today: Indigenous Cultural Heritage -- Indigenous Artists -- Notes -- TASMANIA -- CHAPTER 2 Forgotten lives: The First Photographs of Tasmanian Aboriginal People -- The first Photograph -- Control and Containment -- The People Who Went to Oyster Cove -- The visiting Bishop and Too Little, Too Late -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- NEW SOUTH WALES -- CHAPTER 3 Photographing Indigenous People in New South Wales -- John William Lindt (1845-1926): Still Lives -- Links To Today -- Connecting with the Cowans -- Trickery and Artifice -- Commercial Markets -- Intimacy and Reclamation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Picture Who We Are: Representations of Identity and the Appropriation of Photographs Into a Wiradjuri Oral History Tradition -- Introduction -- Appropriating Representations -- Meaning and Identity -- Banking Identities -- Wiradjuri Excellence -- A Bidja -- Conclusion -- Notes -- VICTORIA -- CHAPTER 5 Photographing Kooris: Photography and Exchange -- Missionaries and Photography: 'Tell Jane I want Her Likeness' -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- QUEENSLAND -- CHAPTER 6 Aboriginal People and Four Early Brisbane Photographers -- Portraits of Our Elders -- Early Brisbane Photographers -- John Watson -- William Knight -- Thomas Bevan -- Daniel Marquis -- Richard Daintree -- The Importance of Photographs -- Notes -- SOUTH AUSTRALIA -- CHAPTER 7 Photographing South Australian Indigenous People: 'Far More Gentlemanly Than Many' -- Jackey and Jemima Gunlarnman -- 'The Nucleus of the Native Church': Poonindie Mission -- 1860s: Growing Circulation -- Ngarrindjeri and Point McLeay Mission -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.

Focusing upon the achievement of the abolition of British slavery in 1833 has obscured significant continuities between slavery, apprenticeship, and the post-emancipation period, particularly in the new Anglophone settler colonies. During the decade leading up to abolition, domestic unrest intensified the tension between the elite abolitionist movement's humanitarian concern for Caribbean slaves, and its leaders' simultaneous implication in the repression of British workers – a corollary of which relegated convicts to the category of unreformable 'voluntary slaves'. Edward Gibbon Wakefield's 1829 proposal for colonization entered a longstanding debate about labour discipline that was central both to ameliorative slave reform and to experiments in emigration and settler colonialism, and expressed his ambivalence regarding the benefits of 'free labour'. In the transition to new labour regimes, systematic colonization translated categories and practices developed in the Caribbean into colonial projects, including raced and classed labour hierarchies targeted to specific climatic zones. As Caribbean slavery ended and settler colonialism began, the new colonies offered a solution to the loss of the 'trade in human flesh' by removing dissenters from the British social order, opening up new fields for investment, and creating a disciplined colonial labour force.

This article examines the illustrated pamphletOngeluckige voyagie, van't schipBatavia (Unlucky voyage of the shipBatavia) and its representation of a 1629 shipwreck off the coast of western Australia, followed by mutiny and the massacre of many survivors. The pamphlet was published in Amsterdam in 1647, and included fifteen (six full-page) fine copper engravings. It was very popular, helping to shape a new genre of shipwreck narrative and expressing the preoccupations of contemporary visual culture. The pamphlet's illustrations translated new conceptualisations of space emerging from the period's unique collaboration between cartography and art into popular form within a booming Dutch print culture. Through innovative techniques of montage and vignette these engraved images conveyed the narrative's drama and affirmed principles of morality, honour, and order. While the era's spectacular violence now seems very far away, these historical images effectively communicate the contemporary relish of the disaster to modern audiences. This "earliest of Australian books" is sometimes offered as an alternative Australian foundation myth, and theBataviadisaster continues to grow in cultural significance. Now as then, these illustrations provide a vivid counterpoint to its audience's comfortable lives.

On the 180th anniversary of the Myall Creek Massacre of 1838, acclaimed writers, historians, lawyers and artists explore the impact of one of the most horrifying events of Australian colonial history, showing why this event was and remains so important for Australia. The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial, one of the few cases of this kind in Australia. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Myall Creek was not the last time the colonial administration sought to apply the law equally to Aboriginal people and settlers, but it was the last time that the perpetrators of a massacre were convicted and hanged. Marking its 180th anniversary, this book explores the significance of one of the most horrifying events of Australian colonialism

This introductory article considers and questions exactly how materials and people constitute social worlds and relationships which sustain identity and memory and, in turn, the social and political structures or norms that these attachments invest in, stabilise and maintain.