1824 CE–1832 CE
Black War, Black Line and Aboriginal survival in Tasmania
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · War & conquest · Resistance & colonized agency · Indigenous peoples & dispossession · Memory, reparation & restitution
British pastoral expansion in Van Diemen’s Land intensified a frontier war among settlers, colonial forces and Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples. In 1830 Governor George Arthur mobilized the “Black Line,” a mass operation intended to drive together and capture survivors; it failed militarily but accompanied a policy of removal and confinement. Tongerlongeter, Mannalargenna and other Aboriginal figures represent resistance, negotiation and survival against violence that cannot be narrated as the mere extension of settlement
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