{"id":5831,"date":"2020-06-13T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2020-06-13T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:17:19","slug":"blackbirds-australias-hidden-slave-trade-history-the-racism-that-brought-australian-south-sea-islanders-here-and-the-racism-that-tried-to-send-them-back-the-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/blackbirds-australias-hidden-slave-trade-history-the-racism-that-brought-australian-south-sea-islanders-here-and-the-racism-that-tried-to-send-them-back-the-monthly\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbirds: Australia\u2019s hidden slave trade history: The racism that brought Australian South Sea Islanders here, and the racism that tried to send them back | The Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Like much else about the Islander story, the mass graves across Queensland and northern NSW do not just tell of brutalisation and neglect. Some of them are unheralded markers of quiet defiance. One of Davis\u2019s most forceful memories from childhood is of Islander men choosing to die, and to be buried, on their own terms.<\/i><br \/>\nSource: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\/issue\/2019\/july\/1561989600\/alex-mckinnon\/blackbirds-australia-s-hidden-slave-trade-history#mtr\">Blackbirds: Australia\u2019s hidden slave trade history: The racism that brought Australian South Sea Islanders here, and the racism that tried to send them back | The Monthly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like much else about the Islander story, the mass graves across Queensland and northern NSW do not just tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,4,447,432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foi","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5832,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}