Edward Gibbon Wakefield |
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| Title : | Edward Gibbon Wakefield |
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| Creator : | Wakefield, Edward, 1845-1924 | ||
| Source : | New Zealand after fifty years | ||
| Place Of Creation : | New York | ||
| Publisher : | Cassell & Company | ||
| Date of creation : | 1889 | ||
| Format : | Artwork | ||
| Dimensions : | 195 x 140 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Edward Gibbon Wakefield wrote A letter from Sydney in 1829 while serving three years in prison for the abduction of a 15 year old heiress. Although he had never been to Australia, Wakefield's 'letter' describes the shortcomings of New South Wales and the 'prospects which this penal colony offers to emigrants of a class above convicts, labourers, mechanics, and desperate or needy men.' Wakefield's projected solution was a 'system of colonisation' based on the sale of land, with the money raised being used to pay the passage of labourers to the new colony. He proposed that, 'the supply of labourers be as nearly as possible proportioned to the demand for labour at each settlement; so that capitalists shall never suffer from an urgent want of labourers, and that labourers shall never want well-paid employment.' |
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| Related names : | Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 |
| Period : | Pre-1836 |
| Further reading : | Mills, R.C. The colonization of Australia (1829-42); the Wakefield experiment in empire building, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968 Wakefield, Edward Gibbon. A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australasia, London: Joseph Cross, 1829 Wakefield, Edward Gibbon. Plan of a company to be established for the purpose of founding a colony in Southern Australia : purchasing land therein, and preparing the land so purchased for the reception of immigrants, London: Ridgway and Sons, 1831 Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, The new British province of South Australia, or, a description of the country, illustrated by charts and views : with an account of the principles, objects, plan, and prospects of the colony, London: Printed for C. Knight, 1834 |
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