Black War

Black War

▪ Australian history
      (1804–30), term applied to hostilities between Aborigines (Tasmanian) and white European soldiers and settlers on the Australian (Australian Aborigine) island of Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land), which resulted in the virtual extermination of the original Aboriginal population of the island. Armed conflict began in May 1804, when a military detachment opened fire on an Aboriginal hunting party. The bitterness of the Aborigines increased as white settlers occupied choice hunting areas of the island for sheep raising and, when other food ran short, took to hunting kangaroos, greatly depleting this staple of the Aborigines' life. White settlers continually harassed the natives; kidnapping, rape, and murder were common. Unable to meet the European terror in force, the Aborigines resorted to attacks on isolated individuals and small groups. In the later 1820s this campaign became intense, “Black War” sometimes being used only in relation to this period.

      In the autumn of 1830, the lieutenant governor, George Arthur (Arthur, Sir George, 1st Baronet), decided to segregate the Aborigines on the southeastern peninsula of the island. Several thousand settlers were formed into a Black Line to drive the Aborigines out of the bush. The campaign failed immediately, but white power was proving inexorable. Between about 1831 and 1835 an agent of Arthur, George A. Robinson, persuaded most of the remaining natives (approximately 200) to resettle on the Bass Strait island of Flinders (Flinders Island). There, their number dwindled further, although Aboriginality survived through intermarriage with Europeans.

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