Black War

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The Black War was a violent conflict in Tasmania between colonizers under the English crown and Tasmanian Aborigines in the 19th century. This conflict resulted in the genocide of the Tasmanians .

It was a dispute that had never officially been declared a "war". As a result, the Black War is dated differently. Some see its beginning as early as 1803 when the first European settlements were established on Tasmania. The conflict reached its climax around 1820; therefore this date is most often assigned to the Black War . The clashes ended around 1830 after the Black Line attempt failed and the British occupiers deported the Aborigines to the reservation zone on Flinders Island .

literature

  • James Bonwick: The last of the Tasmanians, or the black war of Van Diemen's land . Johnson Reprint, New York 1970 (reprint of the London 1870 edition).
  • Nicholas Clements: The Black War. University of Queensland Press, Brisbane 2014, ISBN 978-0-70225-006-4 .
  • Mark Cocker: Black War . In: Ders .: Rivers of blood, rivers of gold. Europe's conflict with tribal people . Jonathan Cape, London 1998, pp. 140-154, ISBN 0-224-03884-2 .
  • Lyndall Ryan: Tasmanian Aborigines: A history since 1803. 2012, ISBN 1742370683 .
  • Clive Turnbull: Death in Tasmania. The extermination of the Tasmanian indigenous population (Black War, 1962). Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1963.

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