Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Settlers, servants and slaves, Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia, Penelope Hetherington

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Settlers, servants and slaves

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Penelope Hetherington

Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth-century Western Australia

Documents the exploitation of Aboriginal and European children in nineteenth century Western Australia; estimating the number of Aboriginal people; limited educational opportunities for Aboriginal children; training of Aboriginal children in church institutions to provide cheap labour at time of labour shortage; use of Aboriginal child, often virtually slave, labour in pastoral and pearling industries; contract and indenture system; treatment of mixed race children; development of reserves for Aboriginal people; legislative controls over Aboriginal people

Counting the European population : demographic framework, children in the colony, 1829-1850 -- Family and child labour -- Parsimony and discrimination in education -- Paupers, bastards, delinquents and larrikins -- Aboriginal children : estimating the Aboriginal population -- Institutions for Aboriginal children in the south: the value of Aboriginal labour, the Wesleyan Mission school, the New Norcia experiment, Ellensbrook, the Anglican Swan Native and half-caste home, the Aborigines Protection Board, elementary education for Aboriginal children -- Family and child labour in the pastoral industry -- Child labour in the pearling industry -- Rehearsing the future "half-castes" and reserves

Settlers, servants & slaves