JSTOR

In Good Faith?

Author

Mitchell, Jessie

Year

2011

Publisher

ANU Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Social Science

Language

English

Pages

235

ISBN

978-1-92186-211-3

Link

Last Update

08-Sep-2024

Keywords

HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies

Description

In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the hands of British colonists, who largely ignored their sovereignty and even their humanity. At the same time, however, a new wave of Christian humanitarians were arriving in the colonies, troubled by Aboriginal suffering and arguing that colonists had

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