Australia to Rename NSW National Park Linked to Slave Trade
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15 November 2021
CANBERRA, LELEMUKU.COM -A popular Australian national park is to be renamed because of its association with the slave trade in the mid-1800s.
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The workers were often kidnapped or coerced into sailing to Australia.
Ben Boyd National Park covers about 50kilometersof rocky coastline and sheltered inlets near the whale watching town of Eden.It is being renamed after the findings of an independent report showing Boyd’s links to the slave trade.The report found the shipped 192 men and women to eastern Australia to work on his estates and ships in 1847.The study also stated that a second voyage to the South Pacific ordered by the businessman ended in violence and the deaths of“numerous villagers.”
New South Wales state environment minister Matt Kean says Boyd does not deserve to be honored.
“Ben Boyd was a scoundrel.He was involved in forcibly removing people from their homes and forcing them to work on his properties,”Kean said.
Consultations will soon begin with First Nations community leaders to find a new name for the park.
The practice of“black birding”became common in the Australian state of Queensland.It is estimated that about 62,000 men were brought to work on plantations in northern New South Wales and Queensland between 1863 and 1904.
Aboriginal leaders also want to have colonial place names and monuments removed across Australia,including more than 20 statues of European explorers in Sydney.
Australia was colonized by the British and became a penal colony in 1788.
Boyd was killed by islanders in the Solomon Islands in 1851.(Phil Mercer | VOA)
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