Aborigines' Protection Society: Transactions,1837-1909

From the Libraries of Anti-Slavery International, London, and Rhodes House, Oxford, England

8 reels 35mm silver positive microfilm, ISBN 1 897955 59 6

List price: POA

Founded in 1837, the Aborigines' Protection Society published tracts, pamphlets, Annual Reports and a journal entitled The Aborigines' Friend, or Colonial Intelligencer. The Society continued until 1909 when it merged with the Anti-Slavery Society (now Anti-Slavery International). As a complement to our other Anti-Slavery collections (see below) we are issuing all of the volumes published by the Aborigines' Protection Society now in the collection of Anti-Slavery International. London. In addition we are including a number of volumes deposited in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, which are missing from the ASI collection. The microfilm set is thus the most complete available. The publications contain numerous mentions of the contemporary situation relating to the Aborigines of Australia; the Maoris of New Zealand; the Native American and Canadian Indians; the Native South American Indians; as well as the tribes of Africa, Papua/New Guinea and other Melanesian and Polynesian peoples. The following items are included in the 35mm silver positive microfilm set:

Aborigines' Protection Society : Annual Reports, 1839-1909

Reels 1-2 :

• Annual Reports 1838(9)-1909

Reels 3-7 :

• The Aborigines' Friend
  (Colonial Intelligencer or Aborigines' Friend) 1847 – 1909

Reel 8 :

• Pamphlets, 32 items 1896 - 1908