Detailed Record
British and Foreign Aborigines' Protection Society, The
1838 - 1847
Generic Titles:
Annual Report. (1838 - 1847)
then: Colonial Intelligencer or Aborigines' Friend, The; comprising the transactions of the Aborigines' Protection Society; with interesting intelligence concerning the aborigines of various climes, and articles u
then: Aborigines' Friend and Colonial Intelligencer. 1855 - 1858
then: Colonial Intelligencer and Aborigines' Friend. 1859 - 1867
then: Aborigines' Friend, The. 1874 - 1909
then: Aborigines' Friend and Colonial Intelligencer. 1855 - 1858
then: Colonial Intelligencer and Aborigines' Friend. 1859 - 1867
then: Aborigines' Friend, The. 1874 - 1909
London,Middlesex (1847 - 1882)
Proprietor:
Aborigines Protection Society
Publisher:
J. Ollivier (1847 )
S. (Messrs.) Ward (1848)
William Watts
S. (Messrs.) Ward (1848)
William Watts
Printer:
W. Tweedie (1862)
William Watts (1847)
William Watts (1847)
Size:
20cm, 16pp (1847); 21cm, 256pp (1847-1848); 416pp (1849-1850)
Price:
2d (1847)
Frequency:
6 times annually; monthly (1847)
Illustration:
engravings (title page only)
Issued by:
Aborigines' Protection SocietyBritish and Foreign Aborigines' Protection Society, The
Indexing:
T of C/no (Nov 1848); T of C/vol
Departments:
reports/accounts/and notices to members and subscribers concerning Aborigines affairs, notices, Aborigines' Protection Society committee, articles, miscellaneous, obituaries
Orientation:
anti-slavery
Merges:
united with Anti-Slavery Reporter and Aborigines' Friend (q.v.)
Sources:
Bolton, Scientific and Technical Periodicals; Canney, Catalogue of Economic Literature.; Headicar, B.M. and C. Fuller. directors. A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Vol IV. London: The London School of Economics & Political Science, 1932.; Mitchell, Roger Casement and the Press.; Scudder, Samuel H. Catalogue of Scientific Serials. 1879.
Histories:
Altholz, Religious Press in Britain.; Cranfield, G.A. The Press and Society: From Caxton to Northcliffe London and New York: Longman, 1978.
Comments:
Motto: "Ab Uno Sanguine" (title page 1:1 [ns]).
"The narratives of the greatest travellers owe some of the most thrilling interest of their recitals to their incidents with the Aborigines, whether met with in the islands of the ocean, the deserts of Africa, the prairies of America, the steppes of Asia, or amongst the snows of the Arctic regions. It is, however, in connection with the daily transactions of the enterprising colonist and trader that the reciprocal interests of ourselves and the Aborigines are mainly to be found...Readers! It is of the essence of friendship to unite; and the Aborigines' Friend craves, in concurrence with your indulgence, your interest and co-operation" (prologue 1:1).
"It is the object of the Aborigines' Friend to collect and publish facts concerned with the condition and progress of Aborigines; to make appeals in their behalf to those from whom availing help may be expected; and to offer a medium of communication to the scattered Friends as the Aborigines amongst Travellers, Merchants, and Missionaries, whose important information and benevolent wishes lose, by separation, the great weight and influence, which, in combination, they will not fail to exert."
Cranfield writes of the Colonial Intelligencer: "the organ of a typical Victorian institution, the Aborigine's Protection Society, and devoted to the evils of imperialism" (p.173).
Features articles on the Aborigines of Australia and of the Congo, North-American Indians, Aboriginal Slavery in the South Seas, Red-River Indians and Address to the Society of Christian Morals.
After merging with The Colonial Intelligencer or Aborigines' Friend, the title and subtitle reversed three times from 1855-1909 (Altholz).
"The narratives of the greatest travellers owe some of the most thrilling interest of their recitals to their incidents with the Aborigines, whether met with in the islands of the ocean, the deserts of Africa, the prairies of America, the steppes of Asia, or amongst the snows of the Arctic regions. It is, however, in connection with the daily transactions of the enterprising colonist and trader that the reciprocal interests of ourselves and the Aborigines are mainly to be found...Readers! It is of the essence of friendship to unite; and the Aborigines' Friend craves, in concurrence with your indulgence, your interest and co-operation" (prologue 1:1).
"It is the object of the Aborigines' Friend to collect and publish facts concerned with the condition and progress of Aborigines; to make appeals in their behalf to those from whom availing help may be expected; and to offer a medium of communication to the scattered Friends as the Aborigines amongst Travellers, Merchants, and Missionaries, whose important information and benevolent wishes lose, by separation, the great weight and influence, which, in combination, they will not fail to exert."
Cranfield writes of the Colonial Intelligencer: "the organ of a typical Victorian institution, the Aborigine's Protection Society, and devoted to the evils of imperialism" (p.173).
Features articles on the Aborigines of Australia and of the Congo, North-American Indians, Aboriginal Slavery in the South Seas, Red-River Indians and Address to the Society of Christian Morals.
After merging with The Colonial Intelligencer or Aborigines' Friend, the title and subtitle reversed three times from 1855-1909 (Altholz).
Location:
complete runs: LO/U-1 G (Goldsmith Collection); partial runs: CA/U-1 A 1-3:33, 2:14 (1847-1851, 1862), OX/U-1 A (1839, 1847-71, 1874-82); See: Bolton; The full text is available on CENGAGE from Gale.
Reproduced by permission, Cambridge University Library
Reproduced by permission, Cambridge University Library
Reproduced by permission, Cambridge University Library
Reproduced by permission, London University Library