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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-2000/
- Published: 2019-07-10T18:30:07.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-10T18:30:07.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Blog, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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**Trevor Bentley with his book that has been red-stickered. Photo: Daniel Hines**

> **There’s a red warning sticker on the front of Trevor Bentley’s latest book.**  
> **Prepare to be offended.**

> Trevor Bentley, who has a PhD in history, is the first NZ historian to have a book red-stickered. His newly published work ‘Pakeha Slaves, Maori Masters: The Forgotten Story of New Zealand’s White Slaves’ has thrown a strong light on the mostly forgotten story of the Europeans who lived and sometimes died as slaves in tribal New Zealand between the 1790s and 1880s.  
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> “I wrote it to be non-biased, pretty balanced and non-judgemental, but it was still red-stickered,” says Trevor. “I think that’s a result of the current preoccupation we have with hate speech in the wake of the Christchurch massacres \[…\]  
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> [Sunlive](https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/214124-the-forgotten-story-of-nzs-pakeha-slaves.html?ref=goodoil.news)