On 22 August 1832, the Church Missionary Society’s (CMS) Reverend William Watson lamented the sight of convicts in chains by exclaiming, ‘O Sin, Sin, what has thou done!’ Watson, who had been sent to the Wellington Valley Mission in New South Wales (NSW), was in the Australian colonies primarily to promote the civilisation and conversion of Aboriginal people, … Continue reading ‘O Sin, Sin, what hast thou done!’: Aboriginal people and convicts in evangelical humanitarian discourse in the Australian colonies, 1830–50