An important reckoning with Australia’s unspoken history of slavery.From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at GallipoliAs Australia becomes more willing to confront the violence and trauma of its colonial past, one chapter has remained largely hidden: the Australian slave trade known as blackbirding.Between 1860 and 1906, more than 60,000 Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia to work the Queensland sugarcane fie...