When the British government abolished slavery in the Caribbean and compensated the slave-owners, some of the beneficiaries and/or their children and grandchildren went to Australia to make a new life and if possible a new fortune. This essay traces the history of one such family, the Shiells of Montserrat, alongside two other contemporaneous histories – that of Yorkshire radical and convict, John Burkinshaw, and his family, into which one of the Shiells married, and that of the several Indigenous communities these families encountered. Through the experiences of these disparate and intersecting family groups, we can gain insight into both the lived experience and the wider imperial context of the expansion of Australian settler colonialism.

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从蒙特塞拉特到殖民殖民澳大利亚：加勒比奴隶制家庭，运输的英国激进分子和原住民的历史交织

当英国政府废除了加勒比地区的奴隶制并向奴隶主提供赔偿时，一些受益者和/或其子女和孙子女前往澳大利亚过上了新生活，并在可能的情况下获得了新的财富。本文追溯了一个这样的家庭的历史，即蒙特塞拉特的希尔斯（Shiells of Montserrat），以及另外两个同时期的历史-约克郡激进和定罪者约翰·伯金肖（John Burkinshaw）以及他的家庭，其中一个希尔斯嫁给了这个家族，还有几个土著社区这些家庭遇到了。通过这些不同而相交的家庭群体的经验，我们可以洞悉澳大利亚定居者殖民主义扩张的生活经验和更广泛的帝国背景。