Murder at Myall Creek : the trial that defined a nation

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Murder at Myall Creek : the trial that defined a nation

Title remainder

the trial that defined a nation

Statement of responsibility

Mark Tedeschi

Creator

• Tedeschi, Mark, 1952-

Author

• Tedeschi, Mark, 1952-

Subject

• Australia -- History -- 19th century
• Australia -- Law and legislation | History -- 19th century
• Fleming, John Henry
• Fleming, John Henry, died 1894
• Large type books
• Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights | History -- 19th century
• Myall Creek (N.S.W.) -- History -- 19th century
• Myall Creek Massacre, 1838
• Plunkett, John Hubert, 1802-1869
• Trials -- New South Wales
• Massacres -- New South Wales
• Aboriginal Australians -- Crimes against -- New South Wales

Genre

• Large type books

Language

eng

Summary

One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The trial created an enormous amount of controversy because it was almost unknown for Europeans to be charged with the murder of Aborigines. It would become the most serious trial of mass murder in Australia's history. The trial's prosecutor was the Attorney General of New South Wales, John Hubert Plunkett. It proved to be Plunkett's greatest test, as it pitted his forensic brilliance and his belief in equality before the law against the combined forces of the free settlers, the squatters, the military, the emancipists, the newspapers, and even the convict population. From the bestselling author of Kidnapped and Eugenia, Murder at Myall Creek follows the journey of the man who who arguably achieved more for modern-day civil rights in Australia than anyone else before or since"

Biography type

contains biographical information

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult