‘Hanging no good for blackfellow’
Looking into the life of Musquito
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20054461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Parry (0000-0003-3139-3997, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Transgressions (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/t.12.2007.07 |
| OpenAlex | W2935759553 |
| ISBN | 9781921313448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
On the morning of 25 February 1825 in the Hobart Town Gaol, two Aboriginal men were hanged, alongside six white bushrangers. The Aboriginal men were known only by the nicknames of Musquito and Black Jack. Musquito had been convicted of aiding and abetting the wilful murder of a stock-keeper at Grindstone Bay on Tasmania's east coast in 1823, and Black Jack faced the gallows for a second murder. In 1826 two more Aborigines, Jack and Dick, were convicted of murder and hanged. These four hangings took place after a surge of Aboriginal violence. The newly-arrived Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur declared they were intended to set an example. 1 All they achieved was to demonstrate the partiality of British law, for no colonist was ever tried, let alone executed, for killing an Aborigine in Tasmania. After the executions Aboriginal attacks on settlers escalated, and the four hangings have, rightly, been seen as a turning point in what was to become known as the Black War. 2
American History and Culture · Archaeology and Natural History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2017 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |