What is the Shadow?
A huge shadow was cast soon after the arrival of whites because they professed to be Christian and went to church on Sunday then acted like savages for the rest of the week.
https://australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/early-missionaries/
Excerpts taken from his book, One Blood, John Harris uses original sources to reveal with brutal honesty the story of the first Aboriginal Christian missions in Australia, and the people they sought to engage showing Aboriginals had little chance of fair treatment at the hands of the whites because due to the;
- low view of Aboriginal society and culture displayed by the most whites .
- brutal or immoral treatment of Aboriginal people by most settlers.
- gross contradictions between Christian values and the lifestyle of colonial white society.
