Dark Convicts
Publisher: UWA Publishing; UWAP Poetry
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781742589183
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Description: It is a little known fact that eleven African American convicts arrived in Australia on the First Fleet in 1788. Two of these ex-slaves were the author's ancestors. In extensively researched poems, award-winning writer Judy Johnson vividly portrays scenes from her black forebears' lives, both before transportation and afterwards, in the fledgling colony of New South Wales.