Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles

Revealing the forgotten stories of Aboriginal convicts, this book describes how they lived, labored, were punished, and died. Profiling several of the 130 Aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies, this collection features the journeys of Aboriginal warriors Bulldog and Musquito, Maori warrior Hohepa Te Umuroa, and Khoisan soldier Booy Piet.

Kristyn Harman is a lecturer in Aboriginal studies at the University of Tasmania’s Riawunna Center. She specializes in 19th-century cross-cultural relations throughout the British colonial frontiers.