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Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen’s Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lynched on capture. Yet although three times in British custody he was never tried or punished. Instead he defected, and history tells us that for the ret of his life, he helped the British round up his own people for incarceration on a Bass Strait island. But history is wrong. For the first time the epic truth is told about this charismatic Aboriginal patriot and his unending fight against invasion.
Paperback, 2021, 299 pp
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