Aborigines' Protection Society

The Aborigines' Protection Society (APS) was an international human rights organisation founded in 1837,[1] to ensure the health and well-being and the sovereign, legal and religious rights of the indigenous peoples while also promoting the civilisation of the indigenous people [2] who were subjected under colonial powers,[3] in particular the British Empire.[4] In 1909 it merged with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) to form the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (now Anti-Slavery International).[1][5][6]

The Society published a journal variously entitled Aborigines' Friend, or Colonial Intelligencer, and Colonial Intelligencer and Aborigines' Friend, often abbreviated to Aborigines' Friend, from 1855 until its merger with BFASS in 1909. when the journals of the two societies were merged.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b Aborigines' Protection Society: Transactions,1837-1909 Archived June 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Nworah, Kenneth D (1971). "The Aborigines' Protection Society, 1889-1909: A Pressure-Group in Colonial Policy". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 5 (1): 79–91. doi:10.2307/484052. JSTOR 484052.
  3. ^ "ProQuest Database: Aborigines' Protection Society". ProQuest. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Aborigines Protection Society". Quakers in the World. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  5. ^ Swaisland, Charles (2000). "The Aborigines protection society, 1837–1909". Slavery & Abolition. 21 (2): 265–280. doi:10.1080/01440390008575315. S2CID 146653844.
  6. ^ Joseph Foster (1872). A revised genealogical account of the various families descended from Francis Fox of St. Germans, Cornwall; to which is appended a pedigree of the Crokers of Lineham. pp. 3–.
  7. ^ "The Aborigines' friend and the colonial intelligencer[Catalogue entry]". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Includes the Annual report of the Aborigines Protection Society, 1848-1867... Life date: Vol. 1, no. 1, n.s. (Jan./Dec. 1855)-
  8. ^ "The Anti-slavery reporter / under the sanction of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society [1846-1909] [Catalogue entry]". National Library of Australia. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Volume title pages for 1846-1852 read: The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter.