Reynolds, Henry. Dispossession: Black Australians and White Invaders

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Dispossession: Black Australians and White Invaders
by Henry Reynolds.

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989.
First Edition paperback. 226. pp.

‘Now we have usurped the rights of others in possessing ourselves of their land without even the offer of an equivalent. And we have thus done, also, at the heaviest possible cost to the rightful proprietors, viz their certain ruin … None can defend our Conduct towards the New Hollanders upon principle; let us not therefore persist in it, and let them receive from our hands some reparation for the wrongs we have done them.’ A Gentleman in NSW, 1826

Contemporary 19th century documents compiled by Henry Reynolds shatter the illusion of Terra Nullius, these records showing the colonisers knew full well Aboriginal people owned the land, their outcries and justifications no different from ours today.

Condition: Barely visible crease to back cover. Otherwise in very good condition.