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I can't agree with you about the early colonists not being racist, Caleb. They not only feared the Aboriginal people, but they killed them, mostly with impunity. Remember the reference to a "dispersal" (page 196 of my paperback copy) in the last chapter - "Too slight an affair to be called a massacre". If you read the history of early settlement, there are many references to "dispersals", the code word for killing groups of people.
They were a threat and not considered to be human, so could be killed without concern.
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