'Vintage ads & posters, No. 87, Cruel treatment towards aborigines of Australia by the early white settlers' - K J S Chatrath

 

These prisoners were clapped in chains after allegedly being caught killing a farm animal near Wyndham, Australia, circa 1930; Credit: State Library of Western Australia/News Dog Media

 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4456954/aboriginal-slaves-australia-chains-united-nations/


" And much it grieved my heart to think. What man has made of man.' - wrote William Wordsworth in another context.

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