Title: Dark Convicts
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.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Blacks, Black people, Poetry, Africans, Slavery, Australian poetry, African Americans, Prisoners