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Note publique d'information : For more than seventy years, the Aborigines’ Protection Society, a select group of
the great and the good, fought for the natives of the British Empire and against the
tide of white supremacy to defend the interests of aboriginal peoples everywhere.
Active on four continents, the Society brought the Zulu King Cetshwayo to meet Queen
Victoria, and Maori rebels to the Lord Mayor’s banqueting hall. The Society’s supporters
were denounced by senior British Army officers and white settlers as Zulu-lovers,
‘so-called friends of the Aborigines’, and even traitors. The book tells the story
of the three-cornered fight among the Colonial Office, the settlers and the natives
that shaped the Empire and the pivotal role that the Society played, persuading the
authorities to limit settlers’ claims in the name of native interests. Against expectations,
the policy of native protection turned out to be one of the most important reasons
for the growth of Imperial rule. James Heartfield’s comparative study of native protection
policies in Southern Africa, the Congo, New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, and Canada explains
how those who held the best of intentions ended up unwittingly championing further
colonisation
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