This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect - a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines.
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'. . . a man who rose from the slums of London's East End to become rich and feted as the saviour of savages-a man who, in fact, betrayed the trust placed in him.' -- Mercury, Hobart
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Vivienne Rae-Ellis had a wide variety of working experience as a professional actress, newspaper columnist, radio script-writer and public relations officer before she began writing books. Among her many published titles are biographies of Trucanini and Louisa Anne Meredith.
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