liquornspice: For folks of color, especially Black Indigenous folks, this post details some violence you might not wanna relive right now. It’s nothing shocking. Which is to say: it is a gruesome and horrific story of what white people did to indigenous Black Tasmanians. I hope this trigger warning is useful. deejaybird: The Black aborigines of Tasmania lived in solitude and physical isolation from the rest of the world for over 10,000 years— the longest period of isolation in human history. The isolation of Tasmania’s Black aborigines ended in 1642 with the arrival and intrusion of the European. The British began to slaughter, kidnap and enslave the Black people of Tasmania. “Tactics for hunting down Tasmanians included riding out on horseback to shoot them, setting out steel traps to catch them, and putting out poison flour where they might find and eat it. They cut off the penis and testicles of aboriginal men, to watch the men run a few yards before dying. The Europeans thought nothing of tying Black men to trees and using them for target practice. Black women were kidnapped, chained and exploited as sexual slaves. White convicts regularly hunted Black people for sport, casually shooting, spearing or clubbing the men to death, torturing and raping the women, and roasting Black infants alive. “The Black War of Van Diemen’s Land” was the name of the official campaign of terror directed against the Black people of Tasmania. Between 1803 and 1830 the Black aborigines of Tasmania were reduced from an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people to less than 75. In 1876 the last full-blood Black person in Tasmania, died at 75 years of age. The carnage, cruelty, savagery, and the monstrous pain, suffering, and inhumanity Europeans have inflicted upon the Black people of Tasmania, one could argue that the White settlers of Tasmania, far more than the ravenous beast portrayed in American cartoons, have been the real Tasmanian devil.

liquornspice:

For folks of color, especially Black Indigenous folks, this post details some violence you might not wanna relive right now. It’s nothing shocking. Which is to say: it is a gruesome and horrific story of what white people did to indigenous Black Tasmanians. I hope this trigger warning is useful.

deejaybird:

The Black aborigines of Tasmania lived in solitude and physical isolation from the rest of the world for over 10,000 years— the longest period of isolation in human history. The isolation of Tasmania’s Black aborigines ended in 1642 with the arrival and intrusion of the European. The British began to slaughter, kidnap and enslave the Black people of Tasmania. “Tactics for hunting down Tasmanians included riding out on horseback to shoot them, setting out steel traps to catch them, and putting out poison flour where they might find and eat it. They cut off the penis and testicles of aboriginal men, to watch the men run a few yards before dying. The Europeans thought nothing of tying Black men to trees and using them for target practice. Black women were kidnapped, chained and exploited as sexual slaves. White convicts regularly hunted Black people for sport, casually shooting, spearing or clubbing the men to death, torturing and raping the women, and roasting Black infants alive. “The Black War of Van Diemen’s Land” was the name of the official campaign of terror directed against the Black people of Tasmania. Between 1803 and 1830 the Black aborigines of Tasmania were reduced from an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 people to less than 75. In 1876 the last full-blood Black person in Tasmania, died at 75 years of age. The carnage, cruelty, savagery, and the monstrous pain, suffering, and inhumanity Europeans have inflicted upon the Black people of Tasmania, one could argue that the White settlers of Tasmania, far more than the ravenous beast portrayed in American cartoons, have been the real Tasmanian devil.

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