Guide to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

Summary

Collection number:

M2426 - M2435

Creator:

Aborigines Protection Society

Extent:

66 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.

Letters received by Secretaries of the Anti-Slavery Society: L.A. Chamerouzow (1852-1870), Thomas Phillips (1870-1874), Benjamin Millard (1871-1875), Charles Allen (1879-1898), Joseph Cooper (1871-1879) and Edmund Sturge (1871-1879).

Correspondents include W. Brookes, J. Sunderland, F. Chesson, Bishop C. Abraham, Sir Thomas Buxton, J. Cooper, Agnes Craig, Admiral J. Erskine, G.W. Rusden, J.B. Thurston, W.F. Parr, Sir George Grey, Reverend J.G. Paton, Te Wheoro, A. Davidson, R. Short and J. Douglas.

Biographical / Historical:

The Aborigines Protection Society was founded in 1837, mainly to carry out the recommendations of the 1835-1837 House of Commons Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes (Chairman: Sir Thomas F. Buxton). Buxton was the first President and Dr Thomas Hodgkin was the first Secretary. The aim of the Society was 'to assist in protecting the defenceless and promoting the advancement of uncivilised tribes'. An auxiliary Society for the Protection of Aborigines of New South Wales was founded in 1838. The Society took a particularly strong interest in native affairs in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific in the period 1866-1888, when F.W. Chesson was Secretary and Sir Robert Fowler was Treasurer. It maintained close relations with the Anti-Slavery Society (founded by Buxton in 1825) and the two societies amalgamated in 1909.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2299044] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Special collections, Weston Library, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford, England.

Collection Reference: MSS. Brit Emp. S18, MSS. Brit Emp. S22. For more information see Aborigines Protection Society at the University of Oxford [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/blcas/anti-slavery-society.html]

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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