| Group of Warriors from the tribes west of Hermann burg, Central Australia in Myall creek massacre.The Myall creek massacre was just one of many massacres that took place right across the settlement. Yesterday a tragedy occurred when 28 Aboriginal bodies had been found burnt and tortured. The heartless settlers dragged the innocent Aboriginal people into the bush and slaughted every last one. Early investigations believe that 12 stockmen were responsible for this crime. The merciless convict men were punished and hung for their awful crime.
Many hundreds of settlers were killed while their homes were burned and their livestock destroyed. At the climax of the fighting, it was believe that the white settlements would be completely destroyed due to the tribal confederation’s overwhelming numerical superiority. Hundreds of Colonists were murdered and many settlements were destroyed. Colonists began to flee to Charles Town. This caused Charles Town supplies to run low and starvation began to set in.
Violence in a well ordered society is a rule that is often times broken. Both texts Lizzie Bright and the Buckminsters Boy and The Outsiders show that violence lead to death and the disruption of a society. In the first novel, Lizzie Bright and The Buckminsters Boy, The White People of the Pittsburg society wanted The Blacks out of their own island because they wanted to use it as a tourist resort. After the Blacks refused to move of the island, people of the Pittsburg community took matters into their own hands burning down their homes and everything that they held to their name. This resulted in a death of many blacks due to starvation and the fumes of the fire.
Many people died in this vicious cycle of imprisonment and tyranny, without any justification as to why they were being treated this way. This was how most slaves at this time believed life was, that there was no escape from the evils of slavery. In his piece, “The Narrative”, Frederick Douglass describes to us these evils and
One officer, Captain Silas Soule refused to follow Chivington's order and told his men to hold fire. Other soldiers in Chivington's force, however, immediately attacked the village. Disregarding both the American flag and a white flag that was run up shortly after the soldiers commenced firing, Chivington's soldiers massacred the majority of its mostly-unarmed inhabitants. An estimated 150 Indians were killed and mutilated, mostly women, children, and elderly men. In testimony before a Congressional committee investigating the massacre, Chivington reported that as many as 500-600 Indian warriors were killed.” One source from the Cheyenne said that about 53 men and 110 women and children were killed.
And Mr. Beal Bondly who shot one of Colonel Lloyd’s slaves for accidently wandering onto his property. These are all instances where slaves were killed and nothing was done about it. The brutality of slavery had a devastating effect of slaves. “I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of
As she watches them burn down her house she describes them as “murderous Wretches” . She describes the scene as the “dolefullest day that [her] eyes have ever [seen].” At this point in time, Mary has no knowledge of the Native American lifestyle and when
The Black Death The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was one of the biggest tragedies in England’s history. Wiping out one third of the population, it swept through the country every spring. People awaited the terrible Black Death in extreme fear. Everyone wondered where this horrible disease was coming from and why it had happened to them. Why almost everyone they loved was getting swept away by the traitorous disease.
They were forcibly removed from the land and were placed in Relocation Programs. Along the journey to the locations, hundreds had died from starvation, exposure, and illnesses. The government forced the survivors to live on reservations where many still reside today. Many of the reservations are on poverty-ridden areas, and many of them have suffered from alcoholism and suicide because they had been robbed, humiliated, and removed from all that they knew. Even into the 19th Century, numerous wars broke out between the Indians and the United States forces.
The introduction of the Indian Removal Act saw numerous tribes displaced from their ancestral homes time and time again, and while the rest of America prospered, they were forced onto small plots of land, and not even formally recognised as citizens of their own country. The buffalo which they depended on were slaughtered, causing widespread starvation, and every time they retaliated against this appalling treatment it only served to further reinforce unfair stereotypes which still haunt them to this day. Hopefully, by examining the mistakes of the past, people will avoid repeating them in the