Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
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Source: Guardian Australia
Published: 2026-08-10 01:00 UTC+10:00
Section: Sydney
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Culture & Entertainment, Australia, Trade & Sanctions, World News, Business & Economy, Asia Pacific
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Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders
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