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Aboriginal slave child, NW Western Australia, circa. 1900.State Library of Western Australia, Catalogue: BA338/1/42, File name, 'Nurse boy Nor West Thomas, A.J.' Caption: 'Boy with Leila Gawthorne, Roebourne WA c1900'.[A child slave was called a 'nurse' on the frontier, but not to be confused with some of the older Aboriginal girls and women who were known as 'wet nurses' for obvious reasons.


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