The boys from St Francis / Ashley Mallett.
Material type: TextPublisher: Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781743055991
- 1743055994
- Priests -- Australia -- Adelaide (S.A.)
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Adelaide (S.A.)
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Relocation
- Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Adelaide (S.A.)
- Stolen generations (Australia)
- Race relations
- Enfants australiens (aborigènes) -- Soins en institutions -- Australie -- Adélaïde (Austr.-Mér.)
- Australiens (Aborigènes) -- Australie -- Adélaïde (Austr.-Mér.)
- Générations volées (Australie)
- Relations raciales
- HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand
- Aboriginal Australians
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care
- Priests
- Race relations
- Stolen generations (Australia)
- South Australia -- Adelaide
- 994.23 23
- DU320
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later life. In 1945, Anglican priest Father Percy Smith brought six boys from their Northern Territory home to an Adelaide beach suburb. There, they became the first boys of St Francis, a place that would house 50 such boys over 11 years. Some were sent, with the blessing of their mothers, to gain an education. Others were members of the Stolen Generations. In their interviews with Ashley Mallett, many of these men recall Father Smith's kindness and care. His successors, however, were often brutal, and the boys faced prejudice in a wider world largely built to exclude Indigenous Australians. The Boys from St Francis is a sometimes shocking, but ultimately hopeful book about black and white Australia, told through one constellation of lives, sharing one seaside address.
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