Slavers of the South Seas
Sydney, Angus & Robertson Limited, 1935.
Octavo, xvi, 308 pages.
Cloth; rear cover lightly flecked; a near-fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper (slightly marked, creased and torn with very slight loss).
'The real story of the South Sea slaves and blackbirders is to be pieced together from ... the writings of naval officers, of missionaries, and of traders, the proceedings in the few cases in which massacres and other outrages by these men led to legal action against them, stray hints by travellers, stories in old newspapers or in official reports' (dustwrapper blurb).
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