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George Robinson

Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines

Vivienne Rae-Ellis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Melbourne University Press

Published:4th Aug '92

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A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment.

This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect-a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines.

ISBN: 9780522847444

Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 26mm

Weight: 430g

328 pages