Australia and Anti-Slavery: Humanitarianism and Popular Culture from 1890 to the present

该项目通过调查通过英国、欧洲和澳大利亚的国际人道主义网络传播的思想和运动，解释了“反奴隶制”言论如何影响澳大利亚的人道主义运动，包括土著权利、契约、强迫劳动、贩运和性奴役。这个项目的意义在于它关注流行文化和奴隶制的视觉表现，以及它们在漫长的20世纪到现在对国内和国际舆论和辩论的影响。该项目探讨了反奴隶制历史在塑造当代对奴隶制和强迫劳动的态度方面的作用。

This project explains how ’anti-slavery’ discourse shaped humanitarian campaigns in Australia, including Aboriginal rights, indenture, forced labour, trafficking and sexual slavery, by investigating the transmission of ideas and campaigns through international humanitarian networks in Britain, Europe and Australia. The significance of this project lies in its focus on popular culture and the visual representation of slavery, their influence upon public opinion and debate nationally and internationally throughout the long 20th century into our present. This project explores the role of anti-slavery history in shaping contemporary attitudes towards slavery and forced labour.