Waitangi Tribunal Part 2 Report on stage 1 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki inquiry [pdf, 4.4 MB]
...nations : France had begun to assert its imperial ambitions once again (taking control of algeria in 1830), and its renewed activity in the pacific did not go with- out comment. at the same time, Britain’s experience of empire continued to galvanise humanitarians ; after the abolition of slavery in the British empire by legislation in 1833, humanitarian organisations, particularly mission- ary societies, turned their attention to the experience of indigenous peoples.2 The parliamenta...