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The Screen Guide

Few people know that the Australian sugar industry was founded on the sweat of men and women enticed or kidnapped from the islands of the South Pacific. Sugar Slaves is the story of that human traffic, euphemistically known as 'blackbirding'. Between 1863 and 1904 about 60.000 islanders were transported to Queensland, where they toiled to create the sugar plantations of the far north. Then, after the introduction of a White Australia policy, most were deported. A few thousand were permitted to r

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Crew

Director
Trevor Graham
Writers
Jean-Jacques Portail
Producer
Penny Robins
Executive Producers
Sharon Connolly
Dir. of Photography
John Whitteron

Cast

Jonathan Holmes (narrator)

Production Details

Production Completion
1995
Genre
History and national identity
Production Company
Annamax Media Pty Ltd  Film Australia Limited

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