Protecting the Empire's Humanity

Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines'' Protection Society to expose Britain''s hypocrisy and imperial crimes in the mid-nineteenth century. Hodgkin''s correspondents stretched from Liberia to Lesotho, New Zealand to Texas, Jamaica to Ontario, and Bombay to South Australia; they include...