The Black War
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Eastern Tasmania was the scene of horrific violence between 1824 and 1831. The Black War, as it became known, claimed the lives of well over 200 colonists, and all but annihilated the island’s remaining Aborigines (see Figure 3, page 2). It was a small guerrilla war, but one of titanic proportions for the colonists and Aborigines involved. They were settlers gambling everything in the hope of making their fortune; women and children accompanying their husbands and fathers to the other side of the globe; lonely, underpaid soldiers trying to make the most of a year or two’s hiatus from their sweltering equatorial posts; convicts hoping to serve out their sentences as painlessly as possible; and people who had inhabited the country since time immemorial, now struggling to negotiate the strangers in their midst. Some of these people were victimisers, but all of them were victims. This book explores their attitudes and experiences during one of the darkest periods in Australia’s history.
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