Transatlantic slavery, the African diaspora and the unfree settlement of Australia, 1750-1850

这个项目在历史研究方面开辟了新的天地，并将开辟历史学家鲜为人知的人口和文化史领域。该项目将刑事运输视为非法劳工国际贩运的一个方面，并将其用作整个英国殖民地的一种管制形式，并审查与大西洋世界强迫劳动管理有关的刑罚制度，将对非洲侨民、奴隶制和殖民史的研究作出重大贡献。它还将有助于理解澳大利亚种族关系的复杂性，并有助于解决有关原住民的有争议的问题。

This project breaks new ground in historical research and will open up areas of demographic and cultural history rarely understood by historians. By reading penal transportation as an aspect of the international traffic in unfree labour and its use as a form of control throughout the British colonies, as well as examining penal systems in relationship to coercive labour management in the Atlantic world, the project will make a significant contribution to research into the African Diaspora, slavery and colonial history. It will also facilitate an understanding the complexities of race-relations in Australia and help untangle contentious issues concerning Aboriginality.