I went into this thinking I knew a fair bit about African and African Diaspora peoples who were transported to Australia, but I really didn't. This is a meticulously documented record of many really interesting stories I - and I am guessing you - were never told. Chingaipe has dug up the stories of African leaders, Carribean revolt leaders, queer Indigenous Khoisan, and people who lived through chattel slavery as well as convict systems. There are sex workers and children who fought back against their abuse. Chingaipe gives all her subjects attention, noting the frustrations of trying to tell lives through scant archival records, but never trying to intepret them beyond what is reasonable, speak for them, or sanitise them. This is such a varied cast of people, and cannot but shift your view of what Sydney and Hobart looked like in the early days of the colony, and only wonder at how we create myths that erase.