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Broome Creole: Aboriginal and Asian Partnerships along the Kimberley Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Sarah Yu
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Romantic Broome — the pearling centre of the North West … the locale of exciting novels! White-sailed luggers skimming across azure seas in the early dawn. Colowful Asiatics jostling in Sheba Lane — the famous street 0’ Pearls. And languorous tropical nights beneath the glittering southern Cross.

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Queensland Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 1999 , pp. 59 - 73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 

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2 Blackbirding was a practice in which pearlers or pastoralists would capture Aboriginal men and women to work on the boats as divers. There was much abuse of Aboriginal divers, in particular of the women.Google Scholar

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