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领域，并将开辟历史学家很少了解的人口和文化史领域。通过将刑罚运输作为非自由劳工的国际运输的一个方面及其作为整个英国殖民地的一种控制形式的使用，以及检查与大西洋世界强制性劳工管理有关的刑罚系统，该项目将对研究非洲侨民，奴隶制和殖民历史做出重大贡献。它还将有助于理解澳大利亚种族关系的复杂性，并有助于理清有关土著的争议问题。

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.