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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:'Nigger Drive Brothers': Australian Colonial Racism in the Early Gold Coast Mining Industry
Author:Dorward, David C.ISNI
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]
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