There is a bitter connection between sugar and slavery around the world. One talk, one human race but ah… if it were only that simple.Īs I have explored many of the islands in the Caribbean and the South Pacific I am always struck by the profound long-lasting impacts on their history and their common experience of human slavery. While the history wars of late are focussed on the inscriptions of statues of Captain James Cook and the blackbirders, Robert Towns & John Mackay, Jeff McMullen writes that Australian South Sea Islanders want us to consider the legacy of our own brand of human slavery.Īs we stare at the devastation on so many Caribbean Islands caused by one of the most savage storms in history, it is natural to feel that we are all Wantoks, as our own Islanders say.
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