Slavers in Paradise: The Peruvian Labour Trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864 |
Contents
The Peruvian Background | 1 |
Tongareva Tryout | 5 |
Tongareva | 6 |
A Manihiki church | 7 |
Omoka Village Tongareva | 10 |
The Easter Island Trinket Trade | 12 |
Hangaroa Bay Easter Island | 16 |
Follies and Failures | 21 |
the Tale of the Hobart Whaler Grecian | 83 |
The Tonga Group | 84 |
Ata Island | 85 |
Ellen Elizabeth in the Gilberts | 88 |
A Gilbertese family in 1851 | 89 |
The View from Tahiti | 92 |
Governor Gaultier de la Richerie | 93 |
Proclamation to the chiefs of the Tuamotu Islands | 94 |
The Tuamotu and Gambier Groups | 22 |
Father Honoré Laval | 24 |
A nineteenth century brig | 27 |
An aged Tuamotu islander | 28 |
Brandy for the Marquesans | 31 |
The Marquesas Islands | 32 |
Hatiheu Bay Nukuhiva | 33 |
Controleur Bay from the Taipi Valley | 34 |
Marquesans at home | 36 |
the Fleet sails West | 39 |
Ahurei Bay Rapa | 40 |
A nineteenth century schooner | 41 |
Atiu Island | 43 |
The ariki Numatangani of Mangaia | 44 |
Blackbirding in the Northern Cooks | 45 |
The Northern Cook Islands | 46 |
George Ellis of Manihiki | 47 |
Loto village Pukapuka | 48 |
The first John Williams | 52 |
Niue and the Samoan Islands | 55 |
A nineteenth century barque | 56 |
A Niuean in 1862 | 58 |
Apia in the midnineteenth century | 59 |
An encounter in Samoan waters | 61 |
Depopulating the Tokelaus | 63 |
Niue and the Samoan and Tokelau Islands | 64 |
The village on Fakaofo | 66 |
Fakaofo islanders | 67 |
Atafu from the air | 69 |
Churchwomen of Atafu | 72 |
Kidnapping for God in Tuvalu | 74 |
The Tuvalu Group | 75 |
Nukulaelae islanders | 77 |
Women and children of Funafuti | 78 |
Jack OBrien of Funafuti | 79 |
Queen Pomare of Tahiti | 96 |
Papeete in the midnineteenth century | 100 |
The roadstead at Papeete | 102 |
Polynesians in Peru | 107 |
Journey to Servitude | 109 |
Death on Sunday | 115 |
Denham Bay Sunday Island | 117 |
Pitcairn Island | 119 |
Callao Contracts | 122 |
A girl from the atolls | 128 |
Bondage in Peru | 129 |
Shipping off the Chincha Islands | 135 |
Political Pressures | 139 |
José Gregorio Paz Soldán | 143 |
Juan Antonio Ribeyro | 145 |
Collecting the Survivors | 150 |
Edmond de Lesseps | 151 |
the Final Tragedy | 159 |
TABLES | 164 |
Settling Up and Settling In | 165 |
Pakomio Maori of Easter Island | 168 |
An atoll church service | 175 |
After the Storm | 179 |
Teau of Rapa and the old men of Fakaofo | 183 |
Labour Ships and their Captains | 185 |
Reconstructed Routes and Estimated Recruits | 186 |
Embarked 1867 | 187 |
Pacific Islanders Recruited for Work in Peru | 188 |
Numbers Landed in Peru or Held on Board for Repatriation | 189 |
Repatriation Statistics | 190 |
A Statistical Balance Sheet | 191 |
by Islands | 192 |
Analysis of Methods Employed in Recruiting | 193 |
by Islands | 194 |
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Slavers in Paradise: The Peruvian Labour Trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864 Henry Evans Maude Limited preview - 1981 |
Common terms and phrases
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