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By Nicholas Clements, Henry Reynolds
Among 1825 and 1831 on the subject of two hundred Britons and one thousand Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black conflict. It was once via a long way the main severe frontier clash in Australia’s heritage, but many Australians understand little approximately it. The Black War takes a distinct method of this historical occasion, taking a look mainly on the reports and attitudes of these who took half within the clash. via contrasting the views of colonists and Aborigines, Nicholas Clements takes a deeply human examine the occasions that resulted in the surprising violence and tragedy of the conflict, detailing uncooked own bills that make clear the tribes, households and members concerned as they struggled to outlive of their turbulent world.
The Black War provides a compelling and hard view of our early touch heritage, the legacy of which reverberates strongly to the current day.
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I use modern place names throughout. FIGURE 1 FIGURE 2: Tasmania INTRODUCTION 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.
In one sense, the discipline has profited from the greater commitment to empirical rigour and accountability that Windschuttle inspired in his bid to discredit previous scholarship. But the history wars have also had the pernicious effect of further polarising the debate. In the media this has been caricatured as a stand-off between ‘black armbands’ or ‘bleeding hearts’ on the one side, and ‘white blindfolds’ or ‘racists’ on the other. Sadly, the main victims of this ‘war’ are nuance and balance in historical writing and public discourse, at a time when they are needed more than ever.
31 Initially, some frontiersmen were able to trade for sex, but as demand outstripped supply, and as more and more women were taken by force, the relationships necessary for such exchanges broke down. Consequently, rape and abduction became increasingly common. The link between the gender imbalance and sexual predation did not go unnoticed. 32 West drew the connection more explicitly: ‘It would be impossible even to hint [at] the series of facts, which are authenticated to the writer, and which strangely blended ferocity and lust.