@inbook{8a94a1506bb0420e9d43f16e2ce044d5,
title = "Introduction",
abstract = "Born in New York in the turbulent eighteenth century, African-American Billy Blue fought with the British against France and America, led a press gang in Deptford, lumped cargo on the Thames, was transported to Australia for pilfering and became a ferryman on Sydney Harbour. In Sydney, he flourished for some years as a man of property, on terms of friendship with Governor Macquarie. Cassandra Pybus speculates that this friendship, which helped secure Blue{\textquoteright}s stature in Sydney society, might have owed something to an earlier acquaintance when both men served in the same campaigns in America.",
author = "Desley Deacon and Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott",
note = "Copyright retained by author(s). Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author and according to publisher conditions. For further reproduction rights please contact the publisher at http://epress.anu.edu.au/",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.4324/9780203852330",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781921536205",
series = "ANU lives",
publisher = "ANU E Press",
pages = "xiii--xxi",
editor = "Desley Deacon and Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott",
booktitle = "Transnational ties",
address = "Australia",
}