RECORD ID

3729

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Queensland, Australia; John Dunmore Lang

AUTHOR

Not specified

pensities of their employers, and would, by being COTTON, THE FUTURE STAPLE OP QUEENSLAND. 239 themselves reduced to slavery, degrade the community in which they live. They have neither the energy nor the spirit to oppose attempts made on their rights and privileges. " We object to them because their presence, as a distinct race, would retard our national progress, and tend to overthrow our civil and religious liberty ; and when they were old and used up, or disabled, they would come upon the institutions of the country; while, if they had been really slaves, those who got the benefit of their strength would have to support them.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive