Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember

http://www.greenleft.org.au/content/tasmanias-black-war-tragic-case-lest-we-remember
Date Written:  2017-03-21
Publisher:  Green Left Weekly
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20689

Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact. At stake was nothing less than control of the country, and the survival of a people.

Subject Headings

• Aboriginal History
• Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Exchanges
• Australia
• British Empire
• Colonialism
• Colonies/British