Australia to Rename National Park Linked to Slave Trade

SYDNEY - A popular Australian national park is to be renamed because of its association with the slave trade in the mid-1800s.

The Ben Boyd National Park, 520 kilometers south of Sydney, is named after a 19th century Scottish colonialist.

Benjamin Boyd is considered Australia's first "blackbirder." This was the term given to business operators who transported Pacific Islanders to Australia, where they were