'Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand' - Jared Davidson (Book Trailer)

'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.'
Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. 'Blood and Dirt' explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Jared Davidson asks us to look beyond the walls of our nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons to see penal practice as playing an active, central role in the creation of modern New Zealand.
'Blood and Dirt' is introduced in this book trailer by author Jared Davidson.
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