PRESENTATION OUTLINE
WHATS IT ABOUT
- The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832
The escalation of violence in the late 1820s prompted Lieutenant Governor George Arthur to declare martial law effectively providing legal immunity for killing Aboriginal people and in late 1830 to order a massive six week military offensive known as the Black Line
in which 2200 civilians and soldiers formed a series of moving cordons stretching hundreds of kilometres across the island in order to drive Aboriginal people from the colony's settled districts to the Tasman Peninsula in the southeast, where it was intended they would remain permanently confined.
At 1825-1831the native Australians attacks double in frequency each year, the British settlers started to worry feeling the impact of the attacks, so the British had no other choice than to attack back
They tried to use British law on them but they don't know what law is so the British attacked and the aboriginals retaliated thus began the black.
