| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Priests -- Australia -- Adelaide (S.A.)
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Priests. |
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Australia. |
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Adelaide (S.A.)
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care. |
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Children, Aboriginal Australian. |
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Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Relocation.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Adelaide (S.A.)
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Aboriginal Australians. |
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Stolen generations (Australia)
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Stolen generations (Australia) |
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Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mallett, Ashley. Boys from St Francis. Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2018 9781743055809 (OCoLC)1050964102 |
| ISBN |
9781743055991 (electronic book) |
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1743055994 (electronic book) |
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9781743055809 |
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1743055803 |
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