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Cargando... Denny Daypor Terry Smyth
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  austcrimefiction | Nov 23, 2018 |   In June 1838, under instructions from Governor Sir George Gipps, a party of mounted police led by Day was sent to arrest white men said to have killed at least twenty-eight Aboriginals at or near Henry Dangar’s station at Myall Creek on the Liverpool Plains. Eleven men were caught, tried and found guilty; seven were hanged. Smyth is Denny Day’s champion, and he tells the story in much more detail. Although Myall Creek was certainly not the first massacre of Australia’s Indigenous People, those men who were hanged were the first to be executed for killing Aborigines. Denny Day was up against colonial attitudes so outrageous that a corrupt association was formed to pay for the defence of the men who were charged, and the third of three trials never took place because a crucial witness ‘disappeared’ and was never heard of again. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/08/24/denny-day-the-life-and-times-of-australias-g... (  ) anzlitlovers | Aug 25, 2016 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Once there was a wilderness: Australia's frontier, a dangerous and unforgiving place where outlaws ruled the roads and killers were hailed as heroes. It was here, in 1838, that one man's uncompromising sense of justice changed history and shocked the world.Denny Day was a vicar's son from Ireland. A member of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, as a young man Day joined the British Army before resigning to seek his fortune in New South Wales. There he accepted the most challenging role in the young colony: keeping the peace on the frontier.Denny Day's abiding legacy is the capture of the perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre - the most infamous mass-murder in Australian history, and the first time white men were convicted of the murder of Aborigines. Yet Day won no praise for bringing to justice the killers of 28 innocent men, women and children at Myall Creek. Rather, he was scorned and shunned, fiercely attacked by the press, by powerful landowners who hired the colony's top lawyers to defend the killers, and by the general public.The 11 men tracked down and arrested by Day faced two sensational trials, and seven of them were eventually found guilty of murder and hanged. The case sparked an international outcry, resulting in stricter government policies protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples.There are many colourful characters, heroes and villains, in Denny Day's story: inspirational frontier women; outlaws captured in a desperate firefight; brave and wily Aboriginal resistance leaders; gormless colonial officials; privileged English nobles and persecuted Irish immigrants; convicts and freemen; and, for good measure, an American pirate.Denny Day was commended for bravery during his lifetime, but only in regards to taming the frontier settlements. Even in his obituary, Myall Creek is not mentioned. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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DENNY DAY is an account of the lawman who, amongst other things in his life, tracked down the perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre which occurred on the 10th June 1838.
Details of Denny Day himself might be a tad on the sketchy side, but that is more than made up for by the revelations that this book brings with it in terms of attitudes and beliefs. There's been a sneaking tendency on the part of some lesser public figures to suggest that we don't owe apologies for the past because "attitudes were different then". Well I'm sorry but not only is that appallingly shortsighted and unstatesmanlike, if the "attitudes" displayed by Denny Day and his companions in this account of the tracking down of killers anything to go by - a flat out lie.
For this reader it came across as well-researched with verified references, a true account, without gloss, in a readable style that's accessible and interesting. There's no attempt to dress up the story, or pad out what's missing - and there are details that would not have been available given the passage of time. This is history, told in an engaging manner, adhering to the need for accuracy and verification.
DENNY DAY combined with Mark Tedeschi's book MURDER AT MYALL CREEK (in that order) certainly gave me considerably more background and information than I had ever been provided with before and I'm very grateful for the chance to have read it - and come to understand just a little bit of the truth of our past.
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