Kila kitu iko kwa attachment. It is the brutality and extinction of a people by the so called 'pure and superior race'
'In 1803, the Aboriginal population was around 6,000, by 1818 it was less than 2,000 and by 1829 some 400 remained. From 1832 the surviving 200 or so were transported to an open air prison at a place called Wybalenna, on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. In 1847, as a cost-cutting measure, the remaining forty five survivors of Wybalenna were removed to Oyster Cove, south of Hobart, and housed in a convict station that had been abandoned because it was permanently damp and infested with vermin. The so-called last of her race, a woman called Truganini, died in Hobart in 1876'
(A picture of the last four "full blooded" Tasmanian Aborigines c. 1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right)
'In 1803, the Aboriginal population was around 6,000, by 1818 it was less than 2,000 and by 1829 some 400 remained. From 1832 the surviving 200 or so were transported to an open air prison at a place called Wybalenna, on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. In 1847, as a cost-cutting measure, the remaining forty five survivors of Wybalenna were removed to Oyster Cove, south of Hobart, and housed in a convict station that had been abandoned because it was permanently damp and infested with vermin. The so-called last of her race, a woman called Truganini, died in Hobart in 1876'
(A picture of the last four "full blooded" Tasmanian Aborigines c. 1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right)
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