Black Jack (Tasmanian)

Black Jack (* unknown, † February 25, 1825 ) was an indigenous native of Australia, a Tasmanian . He resisted the colonization of Tasmania and was sentenced to death in 1824.

Black Jack is said to have stated that British colonial government laws are pointless if they are published in paper form and on posters because they cannot be understood and observed by the Aborigines: “How is a blackfellow to read it? ey! He has not learned to read books ". He got his name extension Black from the prison staff who wanted to distinguish him from the many Jacks.

Black Jack was charged with murder with the Aboriginal Musquito in December 1824 in the Tasmanian Supreme Court in Hobart . While Musquito was fluent in English, Black Jack could barely follow the indictment of insufficient language skills. There was no interpreter and indigenous witnesses were not recognized in the trial because they could not testify as non-Christians. Furthermore, no defense counsel was appointed; they had to defend themselves.

Musquito was found guilty of the first count, the murder of a Tasmanian. Black Jack was acquitted on this point, but subsequently convicted of murdering a white man. The judgments were carried out by hanging on February 25, 1825 in Hobart.

Individual evidence

↑ He is said to have carried this out to Governor Thomas Davey . (Source: Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler et al. (Eds.): Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Vol. 2, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1996, ISBN 3-11-013417-9 , P. 44. (Online on Googlebooks) )
↑ Krystin Harman: Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles in the Australian penal colonies. UNSW Press, Sydney 2012, ISBN 978-1-74223-323-9 . (Online on Googlebooks)

personal data
SURNAME	Black jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Aborigines and fighters against British colonization
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century or 19th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tasmania
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1825
Place of death	Hobart , Tasmania

[1] He is said to have carried this out to Governor Thomas Davey . (Source: Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler et al. (Eds.): Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Vol. 2, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1996, ISBN 3-11-013417-9 , P. 44. (Online on Googlebooks) )

[2] Krystin Harman: Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles in the Australian penal colonies. UNSW Press, Sydney 2012, ISBN 978-1-74223-323-9 . (Online on Googlebooks)