The lyrics deal with the blackbirding of her great grandfather and about honouring and respecting one's elders.
12.
His abduction was part of blackbirding, the practice which brought cheap labour to help establish the Australian sugar industry.
13.
Much of his success came from blackbirding, the practise of coercing and kidnapping South Sea Islanders as slave labourers.
14.
She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific.
15.
In 1876, as a result of his blackbirding activities, Cadell was arrested and expelled from the Colony of Western Australia.
16.
The available evidence suggests that the local tribes such as the Yinikutira were decimated by the practice of blackbirding and introduced diseases.
17.
In Australia, blackbirding and the holding of indigenous workers'pay " in trust " continued, in some instances into the 1970s.
18.
By 1868, there were reports that the recruitment of South Sea Islanders had devolved into kidnapping ( a practice known as blackbirding ).
19.
The blackbirding era began in Fiji in 1865 when the first New Hebridean and Solomon Island labourers were transported there to work on cotton plantations.
20.
The indigenous people on the South Sea Islands had become suspicious of outsiders due to the violence of ruthless traders and to the practice of blackbirding.
