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Title: | 'Nigger Drive Brothers': Australian Colonial Racism in the Early Gold Coast Mining Industry |
Author: | Dorward, David C. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Ghana Studies |
Volume: | 5 |
Pages: | 197-214 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | racism Australians miners gold mining History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Development and Technology Economics and Trade colonialism |
Abstract: | This paper is based on a collection of letters sent home to Australia by two Cornish-Australian miners, George and Ern Bottoms, who worked as mine manager and foreman, respectively, with the Taquah & Abosso Gold Mining Company in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) between 1905 and c. 1912. The Bottoms brothers were working men, imbued with the racist culture of settler Australia. Besides presenting fragments, tinged with racism, from the letters which the 'nigger driver brothers' wrote home, the paper also pays attention to miners' wages, the racial hierarchy of labour, gold processing and gold production. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |