Aborigines In The 19th Century

The forced removal of the Tasmanian Aborigines in the 19th century was an act of genocide. This was due to the Mass killings, rape and kidnappings. This time was given the name The Black war. This was because this was a small war between the Tasmanian aborigines and the European settlers. This essay will talk about the nature of the conflict, the causes and effects of it, what genocide is and who the aboriginal Tasmanians were. European settlement had a severe and shocking influence on Indigenous people. Their dispossession of the land, introduction to new diseases and involvement in violent conflict, resulted in the death of a large number of the Aboriginal peoples. The small fraction of Aboriginal people who did not die during these early decades of the colony, were not unaffected. The impact of the white settlers changed their lives and the lives of future generations forever.
Genocide is “the deliberate extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.” (Dictionary.com, 2016). Which is exactly what the Europeans were doing to the aborigines so it is classed as genocide according to the definition. The Europeans were assassinating, raping and kidnapping the aborigines. According
(Skwirk, 2016). The Black War was provoked by the fast spread of British settlers and agricultural cattle throughout areas of Tasmania that had been traditional Aboriginal hunting grounds. (Wikipedia, 2016c). The effects of this were kidnapping, rape and murder of Aboriginal females and girls, by convicts, settlers and soldiers, but predominantly from the late 1820s the Aboriginal people were also motivated by hunger to rob settlers' homes for food as their hunting grounds minimized, native animals disappeared and the risks of hunting on open ground grew. (Wikipedia,