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- Title
- Introduction
- Related
- Deacon, Desley; Russell, Penny and Woollacott, Angela. Transnational ties : Australian lives in the world, p.xiii-xxi
- Related
- ANU lives
- Publisher
- Acton, A.C.T : ANU E-Press
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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210300 Historical Studies
- Author/Creator
- Deacon, Desley
- Author/Creator
- Russell, Penny
- Author/Creator
- Woollacott, Angela
- Description
- Born in New York in the turbulent eighteenth century, African-American Billy Blue fought with the British against France and America, led a press gang in Deptford, lumped cargo on the Thames, was transported to Australia for pilfering and became a ferryman on Sydney Harbour. In Sydney, he flourished for some years as a man of property, on terms of friendship with Governor Macquarie. Cassandra Pybus speculates that this friendship, which helped secure Blue’s stature in Sydney society, might have owed something to an earlier acquaintance when both men served in the same campaigns in America.
- Subject Keyword
- 210300 Historical Studies
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/79971
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921536205
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2007011504
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright retained by author(s). Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author and according to publisher conditions. For further reproduction rights please contact the publisher at http://epress.anu.edu.au/
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