1872 The Cutter Agnes: An extraordinary story of the lawless Queensland slave-trade and how a Queensland member of Parliament with a sugar plantations bought slaves from pacific pirates

A story of the Queensland slave-trade and how a Queensland member of Parliament with a sugar plantation bought slaves from pacific pirates’ how men and women were trapped and sold.

1859: Tannese kill Levuka plantation owner, Norman, of Sandhurst, Victoria, enroute from Levuka to Norman’s plantation at Nasavusavu: Jimmie Lasulasu survives

The Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4070, 7 September 1870, Page 3  reported Levuka trader Mr, Norman, well known in Sandhurst, Victoria, was murdered, and his body cooked after a group of 22 unnamed (slave labour) Tannese took over Norman’s boat, taking them from Levuka to Norman’s plantation. They wanted to go back home [...]

1840: Levuka Chief offers gifts of women United States Exploring Expedition finds refusal hard as gifts refused, are “destroyed”

“This custom of the country may not be so easily avoided; for as gifts when refused are destroyed, in the case of the present of a wife, considerations of humanity will place a resident stranger in a dilemma. Clash of cultures: “European ideas’ of ” loyalty ” make but a slight approach to the deep [...]