The Aborigines' Protection Society, 1889-1909

A Pressure-group in Colonial Policy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2139223
AutoresKenneth D Nworah (University of Nigeria, autor de correspondencia)
Año1971
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas79
Fecha de publicación1971-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/484052
OpenAlexW4242163423
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas4

The Aborigines' Protection Society was one of the most significant checks on the sagging moral conscience in Britain during the later years of the nineteenth century. As a humanitarian movement, its organization and operational tactics remained as old-fashioned as its compeers; but it came proclaim its own idealism, develop its own character, its own identity, and create its own myths. If the last dozen years of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth century were difficult years for humanitarian crusades, the Aborigines' Protection Society nevertheless managed make an impression as an important pressure-group. After the Emancipation Act of 1833, more imaginative philanthropists and Quakers had come believe that it was equally important be friend and watch over the interests of other aboriginal peoples than those really enslaved. Among these humanitarians, Dr. Thomas Hodgkin was one of the most zealous. He had nourished a deep veneration for William Penn, the Quaker, and this inspired him devote his life continuing Penn's humane policy towards aboriginal races. Indeed, it was mainly at Hodgkin's instigation, and as a result of deliberations at informal gatherings of Friends, that Thomas Fowell Buxton, the reformer, in 1835 obtained the appointment of a Select Committee of the House of Commons to consider what measures ought be adopted with regard the native inhabitants of countries where British settlements are made, and the neighbouring tribes, in order secure them the due observance of justice and the protection of their rights, promote the spread of civilization among them, and lead them the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian religion.'2 This Select Committee, with which Dr

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