Black man honored for Leadership in Australia Gold Rush

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Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, recently recognized John Joseph, a Black man from the United States who moved to Australia, and later became an American gold miner and a leader of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion at Ballarat, Australia, during the Victorian gold rush.  Other than extensive fields of California, the gold output from Victoria was…

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