Kidnapped in the south pacific. Australia's Own Slave Trade
(2019)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Robert Prince, 2019
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ISBN/ISSN
9780994470898 (electronic bk.) MWT14378191, 0994470894 (electronic bk.) 14378191
LANGUAGE
English
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Marcella, a young and beautiful mixed-race, Island Princess is, kidnapped from New Caledonia in 1870 and taken to Australia. Enslaved by Captain Oliver Morgan, she is, hidden away on his country estate, until a police raid forces him to offload her to the owner of a sugar cane plantation. Having paid good money for the transfer, the planter's wife positions Marcella to become the wife of her drunkard son. Marcella, despite harassment and threats, refuses to submit until she learns that the son is a psychopath. An inordinate number of the plantation's Islander workers have mysteriously disappeared and she fears she will be next

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