Aborigines' Protection Society

The Aborigines ' Protection Society was an existing 1837-1909 London society, which had the protection of the "Native American " is set in the British Empire to the destination. It stood for a health and well -being of the dominated by the colonial power indigenous peoples in the foreground, on the other, sovereignty and religious rights. In 1909 she merged with the Anti-Slavery Society for Anti-Slavery and Aborigines ' Protection Society (now Anti-Slavery International).

In order to pursue its goals, the company published annual reports, to tracts and pamphlets and a magazine entitled The Aborigines ' Friend or Colonial Intelligencer. In addition, they collected money to buy disenfranchised or dispossessed peoples a home. It acquired in 1870 for a strain of the Canadian Mi'kmaq on Prince Edward Iceland an island that today is the living there today Lennox Iceland First Nation 's name. The company brought the Zuluführer Cetshwayo in contact with the Queen, and Maori to the negotiating table of the Lord Mayor.

One of the driving forces, Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), was an admirer of William Penn and the Quakers, which he himself belonged. Once it was the British philanthropists succeeded in 1807 to eliminate slavery and the Emancipation Act 1833 to enforce, they continued their struggle for the legal equality of the colonial peoples. In order to convince the British institutions of their projects, the company needed knowledge about the peoples concerned, for she wanted to be doing. So you began to publish or to support their publication, especially since both Hodgkin and his colleague James Prichard were ethnological studded scientists ethnological publications. This meant that some of the men, including Hodgkin, 1842 turned by the Company and the following year the Ethnological Society of London founded. Many of them had the effect of missionaries an eyesore that once pressed upon by them preferred investigated peoples changes in their culture, as the missionaries was mainly located at the baptism. After Hodgkin's death in 1866, no member of the Aborigines ' Protection Society dealt more with anthropological questions.

For the indigenous society was often the only way to gain at court or in Parliament, in the press or the colonial administration access and hearing.

Prior to the establishment of the Aborigines ' Protection Society existed in Britain three more, operating in a more comprehensive sense of ethnographic topics societies. Among them, the British and Foreign Aborigines ' Protection Society was most focused on philanthropic rather than scientific issues.

James Heartfield, who published a monograph on the company in 2011, but came to the conclusion that their well-intentioned activities have ultimately legitimizes the Empire Regiment. In addition, they pursued a policy of segregation.

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• Aborigines Protection Society: Report on the Indians of Upper Canada (London 1839).
• Aborigines Protection Society: Canada West and the Hudson's Bay Company a political and humane question of vital, importance to the honor of Great Britain, to the prosperity of Canada and to the existence of the native tribes: being to address to the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the colonies (London, 1856).