Treatment of Aboriginals under Philip and Macquarie Flashcards
What did Philip initially favour where possible?
a non-aggressive policy towards the aboriginals.
what did he instruct convicts not to do?
what was the response to these orders
Steal from aboriginals.
Largely ignored
aboriginals therefore _________, leading to ______.
retaliated, violence.
How did Philip try and demonstrate the fairness of British justice to aboriginals?
did they respond well to this?
flogged convicts who stole from aboriginals, in front of the aboriginals.
no - showed sympathy for convicts.
when were two convicts murdered by aboriginals?
1788.
When was the smallpox epidemic in NSW?
what % of the aboriginal population did this wipe out and why?
1789
50% - had no resistance to it.
What was the aboriginal settlement closest to Sydney called?
Its population of __-__ dropped to _ as a result of _______.
Cadigal Nation.
50-80 dropped to 3 as a result of smallpox.
what did Philip organise in response to attacks on settlers in the 1790s?
Punitive expeditions.
True or false: Macquarie continued the Punitive expeditions that Philip had started against the aboriginals?
True.
Give an example of punitive expeditions under Macquarie
1816: Organised punitive party in response to attacks on Hawkesbury Farmers; 14 aboriginals killed.
what did macquarie try and set the aboriginals up with in 1815?
how did the aboriginals respond to this?
a farm on Sydney harbour -> gave them equipment and a boat.
Lost the boat, wandered off into the bush.
macquarie then saw aboriginal labour as what?
what did he not extend to aboriginals?
Useless.
Same rights as natives in other colonies.
Who did the expansion of settlement come at the cost of?
what did Macquarie continue against this group?
Darug Band of Aboriginals.
Frequent expeditions against them.
what were the 3 main ways the aboriginal population of NSW was destroyed by 1821?
Smallpox, settler action, and being denied access to their traditional fishing grounds.
