A History of Australia [vol. 4]Melbourne University, 1963 - Australia |
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... emancipists to win a majority in the Council . The difficulty was that in Van Diemen's Land there could be no reference to the emancipist question without exacerbating class feeling . There was still amongst the landed gentry what the ...
... emancipists to win a majority in the Council . The difficulty was that in Van Diemen's Land there could be no reference to the emancipist question without exacerbating class feeling . There was still amongst the landed gentry what the ...
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... emancipist , Isaac Nichols , boon companion of William Charles Wentworth . Nichols used to split his sides laughing at Wentworth's Rabelaisian jokes and stories of which emancipists ate their peas with a fork and which with a knife . He ...
... emancipist , Isaac Nichols , boon companion of William Charles Wentworth . Nichols used to split his sides laughing at Wentworth's Rabelaisian jokes and stories of which emancipists ate their peas with a fork and which with a knife . He ...
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... emancipists , convict bolters , expirees and their womenfolk in the old convict era . They associated with outlaws , brigands and bushrangers . Some women gloried in the role of helpmeet to such bush barbarians , rather than pursuing ...
... emancipists , convict bolters , expirees and their womenfolk in the old convict era . They associated with outlaws , brigands and bushrangers . Some women gloried in the role of helpmeet to such bush barbarians , rather than pursuing ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
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