1828 Proclamation of Demarcation

June 2020 June 2020 The 1828 Proclamation of Demarcation was issued by George Arthur, governor of Tasmania, and ordered the white colonial populations and Tasmanian Aboriginal populations be temporarily separated from each other.James Bonwick The last of the Tasmanians: or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land https://books.google.com/books?id=LTwKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA78 1870 Johnson Reprint Corp. 78– Arthur clarified that the proclamation would not limit Aboriginals from traveling through Tasmania to shellfish hunting territories, provided a passport was coordinated with their leaders.Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Art in the Time of Colony https://books.google.com/books?id=P9CpBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 28 April 2014 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4094-5596-7 92– The proclamation was justified as protecting Aboriginals from violence from colonists, and to protect the colonists from "repeated and wanton barbarous murders and other crimes" by the Aboriginals.Sharon Morgan Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England https://books.google.com/books?id=bTJeskna35YC&pg=PA151 11 December 2003 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52296-0 151– The proclamation established a line of military outposts separating the declared Aboriginal and colonial territories, which the Aboriginals were forbidden to pass. Tasmanian Aboriginals were pressed into remote areas of Tasmania, and eventually relocated to Flinders Island; scholar Rod Edmond notes that the pretext of "protecting" the Aboriginals served as a mechanism to clear desirable land for colonial use.Rod Edmond Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History https://books.google.com/books?id=15U9YIr1masC&pg=PA193 30 November 2006 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-46287-7 193– References Category:1828 in Australia Category:1828 documents Category:Indigenous Australians in Tasmania Category:Anti-indigenous racism in Australia Category:Van Diemen's Land Category:Segregation