Tarred as a blackbirder, Donald Macleod participated in settlement and trading in the Pacific Islands from 1868 until his death in 1894. Although he did participate in the labour trade, he has been unfairly maligned in history books. British and French colonialists, anxious to achieve political ends, used Macleod as a whipping boy, as did the New Hebrides Mission. After extensive research, his great niece, Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey, found that Macleod enjoyed a good reputation among Islanders, settlers, traders and some colonial officials and missionaries; he was not the villain that many others had painted him. This book offers hitherto unknown data about trading conditions and Islander participation and revelatory discussion of the politics of the day, as well as an intimate portrait of a survivor in a rough and controversial era.
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Grand-niece of Captain Donald Macleod, Katherine Stirling Kerr Cawsey was born on Iririki, Prt Vila, New Hebredes, on 8 October 1917 and schooled in Australia. She was the third surviving daughter of Graham Lennox Stirling Kerr and his wife Muriel Hutton. She went to Sydney with her family in August 1918.
A librarian by training, she worked in the State Library of New South Wales from 1936 to 1943 and at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Black Mountain Library, Canberra from 1970 to 1982. She spent the intervening years bringing up two daughters and a son.
She did not return to the Pacific Islands until 1980. She visited again in 1992. In the course of writing this book, she has conducted extensive research in Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, France, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Scotland and Vanuatu.
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