Another horrifying little detail of colonial history.

In the 1860s, throughout the islands of the Pacific,
tens of thousands of boys and young men
were kidnapped from beaches and put onto boats.
They were then taken thousands of kilometres away to Australia,
where they were made to work and die on sugar-cane plantations.

The male population of the tiny island of Tanna
in the Vanuatu archipelago
(formerly the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides),
almost died out completely.