SOCL 2001 Chapter : Race
Document Summary
After the genocide of the africans by the germans the british decided they wanted to be the first to abolish slavery. In the 1830s the churches took over this idea of abolishing slavery and their views on race dominated britain. Instead of abolishing slavery the british went in to tasmania and eradicated the. The main reason for the genocide was that the. Europeans thought the tasmanians were without culture or religion and were savage criminals that should be treated like animals. George author, the governor of tasmania, attempted to stop the mass killings of the tasmanian people but failed. By the time the killings had come to a stop of the 5,000. Tasmanian people that lived before the invasion of the europeans only about 40 survived. The mass killings did not stop at the tasmanians; many other indigenous races were being exterminated as well. As a result a new racism was beginning to emerge, scientific.
