Massacre at Myall Creek

Massacre at Myall Creek**** Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781925533484 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia Pages: 336 Description: 'A deeply moving account.' Peter FitzSimons 'Fascinating reading.' Weekend Australian 'A considered and elegant work.' Bookseller and Publisher One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former

****
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925533484
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Pages: 336


Description:
'A deeply moving account.' Peter FitzSimons

'Fascinating reading.' Weekend Australian

'A considered and elegant work.' Bookseller and Publisher

One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor 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 northern 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.

Praise for Murder at Myall Creek

‘The Myall Creek massacre is a stain on our nation’s soul, with the only positive note being that the law brought the evil perpetrators to justice in a key trial that was a foundation stone for the integrity of our legal system. Th