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Author Dunn, Mark, 1956- author.

Title The convict valley : the bloody struggle on Australia's early frontier / Mark Dunn
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Terminology and naming -- Maps -- Introduction: a hidden valley -- The Valley -- First contact -- A convict outpost -- As fine a country as imagination can form -- The land rush -- Working on the frontier -- Living on Country -- Resistance and reprisals -- A landscape of violence -- Convict revolt and ruined reputations -- The convict valley
Summary The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became the template for penal stations in other states. Mark Dunn explores relations between the white settlers and the local Aboriginal landholders, and uncovers a long forgotten massacre. In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia. The fertile valley of the Hunter River was the first area outside the Sydney basin explored by the British, and it became one of the largest penal settlements. Today manicured lawns and prosperous vineyards hide the struggle, violence and toil of the thousands of convicts who laid its foundations. The Convict Valley uncovers this rich colonial past, as well as the story of the original Aboriginal landholders. While there were friendships and alliances in the early years, in the later scramble for land in the 1820s - as the Valley was opened to free settlers - tensions rose and bloodshed ensued. With fascinating stories about convicts, white settlers and the Aboriginal inhabitants that have long been forgotten, The Convict Valley is a new Australian history classic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2020)
Subject Prisoners -- Australia -- History -- 18th century
Escaped prisoners -- Australia -- History -- 18th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History -- 18th century
Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 18th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 19th century
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 18th century
Racially mixed families -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 18th century
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 19th century
Interracial friendship -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
British -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
British -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
Pioneers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
Pioneers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
Penal colonies -- Australia -- Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- History -- 18th century
Land settlement -- Australia -- Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- History -- 18th century
Colonization -- History -- 18th century
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Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
British.
Colonies.
Colonization.
Escaped prisoners.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Interracial friendship.
Land settlement.
Penal colonies.
Pioneers.
Prisoners.
Race relations.
Racially mixed families.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- History -- 18th century
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- Race relations -- 18th century
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) -- Race relations -- 19th century
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
Australia -- Race relations -- 18th century
Australia -- Race relations -- 19th century
New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 18th century
New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 19th century
New South Wales -- History -- 18th century
New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
Subject Australia.
New South Wales.
New South Wales -- Hunter River Valley.
New South Wales -- Sydney.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781760874360
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