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In what industry did the kanakas work?
The kanakas were brought to Australia, especially Queensland, to work in the sugar cane industry.
What did the Kanakas do here?
Kanakas were employed as cane cutters in north Queensland. They were considered cheap labour, and were not treated at all well.
Who were kanakas?
the kanakas are are very remotely located group of people who live in the most remote parts of the pacific islands/ pacific location unknown.
Who were the Kanakas?
the kanakas are are very remotely located group of people who live in the most remote parts of the pacific islands/ pacific location unknown.
What are the release dates for Kanakas Diving for Money - Honolulu No- 1 1898?
Kanakas Diving for Money - Honolulu No- 1 1898 was released on: USA: June 1898
What are the release dates for Kanakas Diving for Money - Honolulu No- 2 1898?
Kanakas Diving for Money - Honolulu No- 2 1898 was released on: USA: June 1898
How did the Kanakas contribute to Australia?
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What did the kanakas do when they migrated to Australia?
They worked mainly in the cane fields.
Where did the kanakas come from?
The Kanakas came from various Pacific Islands, mostly recruited from the Solomon Islands and New Hebrides (Vanuatu), though others were taken from the Loyalty Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati and Tuvalu.
Did the Kanakas or the Germans provide slave labor for the canegrowers of Queensland?
It was the Kanakas who were brought in from South Pacific islands to be used as slave labour for Queensland cane growers in the late 1800s. The Germans had nothing to do with this practice, being largely concentrated in southern Australia.
Was The new federated Australia was to be a white Australia and the Kanakas population was unwelcome?
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Why did kanakas come to Australia?
The practice was called blackbirding, the stealing of young Melanesians to work in the cane fields of Australia and Fiji. They were tricked by white setters into coming to Australia. They were considered cheap labour and not treated at all well.Some were willing slaves but the majority were either brought here under false pretences or blatantly stolen from their families to work mainly in the cane fields of this nation.During the late 1860s and early 1870s, "recruiters" ranged the South Seas in search of kanakas to work Queensland sugar and cotton plantations. Former South Seas trader Captain Robert Towns began this dubious practice in August 1873. Over almost 40 years, more than 800 ships scoured the waters of the South Seas, issuing about 62,000 contracts to people labelled kanakas - the Hawaiian name for "boy". It is a story of slavery, of how young men and women from exotic islands such as Pentecost, Tanna and Malaita in the Solomon Islands were taken, sometimes by force and sometimes by deception and shoved into the putrid hulls of ships and carried across to work in the cane fields of Australia and Fiji
