Rhodes House Library, Oxford, England - Aborigines Protection Society - Records, 1837-1888

M 2426-2435

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432836

Microfilm : M 2426-2435

0 microfilm reels 35 mm

Founded in 1837 "to assist in protecting the defenceless and promoting the advancement of uncivilised tribes". The Society took a strong interest in native affairs in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific in 1866-88. Almagated with Anti-Slavery Society in 1909

1. Records of the British and Foreign Anit-Salvery Society, 1853-1886 re Pacific labour trade, treatment of natives in Queensland and Fiji, etc. 2. Aborigines Protection Society records, 1837-1888, re massacres and atrocities by and towards Aborigines; the treatment of Aborigines and Pacific labour in Queensland; Maori affairs including self-government, land schemes, visits of chiefs, etc.; Pacific labour trade; and treatment of indigenous peoples in Tonga, New Guinea and Fiji. 3. Letters from government offices in the Anti-Slavery Society, 1863-1886 mainly relating to import of Pacific Labour into Queensland and to the Aboriginal Protection Society, 1871-1888. 4. Aboriginal Protection Society records relating to Australia, 1845-92; New Zealand, 1843-86; New Zealand, 1864-87; Fiji, 1870-87; Polynesia, 1869-92 and the Pacific, 1868-95

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2426-2435
Microfilm copy of originals held by Rhodes House Library, Oxford
Descriptive list available (33 p.)