I thought that the authors made it exceedingly clear in the book that having been deprived of slave labor, the British then turned to an equally disturbing practice of indentured labor. This new abomination of humanity gave an sudden threat to European wages and an enduring threat to colonial white rule (Reynolds). I thought that the book showed the thought-provoking process of how when colonial lawmaking organizations hit back by struggling to prevent immigrants, or by rejecting to publicize the rights of residency on the grounds of race, they stumbled upon objection from the British imposing interests.
I learned that in response to all of that, British colonists hired a strategy fostered in the American South. The authors did an in-depth job depicting this policy by first showing us that the Cape and then Natal accepted the Mississippi Literacy Test as a means of prohibiting, and it was this test that transformed into the infamous Dictation Test that powers that be employed to exploit the White Australia policy.
Other things that caught my attention in the book was learning that the downfall of the Russian Imperial navy by the Japanese in 1905 further reinforced the partnership between advocates of the color line in the United States and those in the British Territories. It was even more attractive to understand that when President Roosevelt sent off an impressive American battle fleet to the Pacific to show off their strength, Alfred Deakin personally asked Roosevelt to send 'the great white navy' to Australia to establish Anglo-Saxon cooperation in the face of the Asiatic danger. I thought that the authors showed full consideration...
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