ABSTRACT
In this chapter I focus on the legacies of the early nineteenth-century encounter with Indigenous peoples left in imperial culture. What did early nineteenth-century humanitarianism contribute to the discourse about empire? What strategies enabled imperial culture to reconcile the consequences of empire with the values that it purported to uphold? How was empire negotiated and managed in imperial culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? What were some of the contrivances used in British culture to explain the moral challenges of empire?
