{"id":39930,"date":"2015-02-11T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39930"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:32:15","slug":"settlers-servants-and-slaves-aboriginal-and-european-children-in-nineteenth-century-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39930","title":{"rendered":"Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/settlers-servants-and-slaves-aboriginal-and-european-children-in-nineteenth-century-western-australia\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\" target=\"_blank\">University of Western Australia Publishing<\/a><br \/>\n2002-08-31<br \/>\n246 pages<br \/>\n207 x 139 mm<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1876268732<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/penelope-hetherington\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Penelope Hetherington<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/settlers-servants-and-slaves-aboriginal-and-european-children-in-nineteenth-century-western-australia\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/4573\/files\/settlers_cover.jpg?4688\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Settlers, Servants and Slaves<\/em> documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Australia\" target=\"_blank\">Western Australia<\/a>. In a struggling colony desperately short of labour, early settlers relied on the labour of children\u2014their own and other people\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Convicted and neglected children from the poorest sections of this divided society were placed in institutions, where they were trained to become a useful part of the work force. Education services developed only slowly, and there was no system of secondary education provided by the government in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>From the 1870s, Aboriginal children were widely \u2018employed\u2019, in a complex web of contract and apprenticeship law, in the pastoral and pearling industries in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_West_Australia\" target=\"_blank\">North West<\/a>. Often kidnapped by \u2018blackbirders\u2019, these children received no wages and had no opportunity to attend school.<\/p>\n<p><em>Settlers, Servants and Slaves<\/em> also shows how concern over \u2018the problem\u2019 of children of mixed descent in the last decade of the nineteenth century was to provide the rationale for infamous twentieth-century \u2018solutions\u2019: the removal of children from their parents and the establishment of Aboriginal Reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia University of Western Australia Publishing 2002-08-31 246 pages 207 x 139 mm ISBN: 978-1876268732 Penelope Hetherington Settlers, Servants and Slaves documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth-century Western Australia. In a struggling colony desperately short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,8,17,4405,394],"tags":[986,19322,14616,19323],"class_list":["post-39930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","category-socialscience","tag-australia","tag-penelope-hetherington","tag-university-of-western-australia-publishing","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41845,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39930\/revisions\/41845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}