Aborigines' Protection Society
The Aborigines' Protection Society was an international human rights organisation, founded in 1837,[1] to protect the health and well-being and the sovereign, legal and religious rights of the indigenous peoples subjected by colonial powers.[2]
The founders were William Allen, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Henry Christy, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Hodgkin, and Joseph Sturge.[3] Buxton, after the 1832 British abolition of the slave trade, had taken an interest in particular in the Cape Colony. The Quaker background and abolitionism were significant in the setting-up of the Society.[4]
The Society published tracts, pamphlets, Annual Reports and a journal entitled The Aborigines' Friend, or Colonial Intelligencer.[5] The Society continued until 1909 when it merged with the Anti-Slavery Society to form the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (now Anti-Slavery International).[1]
References
- ^ a b Aborigines' Protection Society: Transactions,1837-1909
- ^ ProQuest Database: Aborigines' Protection Society
- ^ Richard King, Obituary of Thomas Hodgkin, M.D., Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London , Vol. 5, (1867), pp. 341-345. Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014240
- ^ George W. Stocking, Jr., What's in a Name? The Origins of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1837-71), Man, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Sep., 1971), pp. 369-390; Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2799027; PDF, at p. 372.
- ^ Heartfield, James (2011). The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836-1909. London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press. pp. 306. ISBN 978-1849041201. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aborigines-Protection-Society-Humanitarian-Imperialism/dp/1849041202.
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