The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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... emancipist body than with that of the respectable free immigrant and official classes , we may draw from Table I the following figures : 1828 1841 1851 TABLE II Convicts , Emancipists and Currency 31,925 ( 87 % ) 73,367 ( 63 % ) Free ...
... emancipist body than with that of the respectable free immigrant and official classes , we may draw from Table I the following figures : 1828 1841 1851 TABLE II Convicts , Emancipists and Currency 31,925 ( 87 % ) 73,367 ( 63 % ) Free ...
Page 42
... emancipists probably took advantage of this provision to return themselves as either Born in the Colony or Arrived Free . ' The number of emancipists given is certainly too small , as it was also in the 1828 and other earlier censuses ...
... emancipists probably took advantage of this provision to return themselves as either Born in the Colony or Arrived Free . ' The number of emancipists given is certainly too small , as it was also in the 1828 and other earlier censuses ...
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... emancipists from other persons born in Great Britain . In Table X therefore the figure for N.S.W. in 1861 is an estimate ( to the nearest 1,000 ) , calculated on the assumption that between 1851 and 1861 the convict - emancipist ...
... emancipists from other persons born in Great Britain . In Table X therefore the figure for N.S.W. in 1861 is an estimate ( to the nearest 1,000 ) , calculated on the assumption that between 1851 and 1861 the convict - emancipist ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
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