By Leonie Stevens

Exiles, misplaced souls, remnants of a death race. The destiny of the 1st international locations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is likely one of the so much notorious chapters in Australian, and international, heritage. the boys, girls, and kids exiled to Flinders Island within the 1830s and 40s have usually been written approximately, yet by no means allowed to talk for themselves. This ebook goals to alter that.

Penned via the exiles in the course of their fifteen years on the cost referred to as Wybalenna, goods within the Flinders Island Chronicle, sermons, letters, and petitions provide a compelling corrective to conventional portrayals of a hopeless, dispossessed, illiterate people's ultimate days. The exiles didn't see themselves as prisoners, yet as a loose humans. obvious via their very own writing, the group at Wybalenna used to be bright, advanced, and evolving. instead of a depressed humans easily looking forward to loss of life, their very own phrases exhibit a politically astute neighborhood engaged in a 15 12 months crusade for his or her personal freedom: one that was once finally winning.

This is a compelling tale that would profoundly have an effect on understandings of Tasmanian and Australian history.

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