Was slavery part of the Australian aboriginal culture?

Food & water was scarce so having a slave would be just another mouth to feed. read more

History of Aboriginal slavery Interestingly, Australia’s slavery started because other countries abolished it. Britain wanted cheaper cotton, but the world’s cotton market had been thrown into turmoil because the UK abolished slavery in 1833 and mass slavery ended in the United States after the Civil War in 1865. read more

Sky writing on National Sorry Day, an annual event held in Australia on May 26 to apologise for "Stolen Generations" of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. butupa/flickr. read more

Australian Aboriginal culture can claim to be the oldest continuous living culture on the planet. Recent dating of the earliest known archaeological sites on the Australian continent - using thermo-luminescence and other modern dating techniques - have pushed back the date for Aboriginal presence in Australia to at least 40,000 years. read more