The whole Draka idea is so fantastically implausible that there's no way it could succeed, especially in Australia: it's much farther from Europe and has a much smaller resource base.
The whole Draka idea is so fantastically implausible that there's no way it could succeed, especially in Australia: it's much farther from Europe and has a much smaller resource base.
Blackbirding is a term that refers to recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work as labourers. From the 1860s blackbirding ships were engaged in seeking workers to mine the guano deposits on the Chincha Islands in Peru[2]. In the 1870s the blackbirding trade focused on supplying labourers to plantations, particularly the sugar cane plantations of Queensland (Australia) and Fiji.[3][4] The practice occurred primarily between the 1860s and 1901. Those 'blackbirded' were recruited from the indigenous populations of nearby Pacific islands or northern Queensland. In the early days of the pearling industry in Broome, local Aboriginal people were blackbirded from the surrounding areas, including aboriginal people from desert areas.
Yeah, to be honest I was thinking that the 'actual' Draka should get screwed in the scenario; there should be some event that evicts the Dutch and/or English from southern Africa, forcing them to seek their fortunes elsewhere.
And maybe we should dispense with the racial zeolotry of Draka, and have the white colonists teaming up with the Maori next door and conquering all the less warlike tribes in Australia.