Pemulwuy

…the 1790s the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy led attacks against the colonists in part as a reprisal for the kidnapping of Aboriginal children, who were often taken and made to work as personal servants for the colonists. Missionaries and colonial officials also participated in the separation of children from their families,…

…led by warriors such as Pemulwuy (a leader from the Botany Bay area who was killed by an Englishman in 1802), led to violent clashes in which large numbers of Aboriginal people were killed. While governors maintained that Aboriginal people should be treated with humanity and as British subjects, the…