Sierra Leone was purportedly conceived of the Enlightenment’s growing antislavery movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its earliest origins can be traced to a growing discourse of human rights and a critique of slave labor for economic gain through the production of sugar, cotton and other commodities. Yet, by the late 20th century this country was embroiled in a civil war that employed contemporary slavery in the form of child soldiery for economic gain from illicit diamond-, narcotics- and gun-smuggling. On the surface, the motives, means and methods of warfare in this nation appear to be a wholesale abandonment of the antislavery principles upon which it was founded. However, this dissertation contends that Sierra Leone’s war and its...
This article investigates the causes of the resilience of slavery in the region of Tahoua in the Rep...
This dissertation focuses on slaves and peasants as self-consciousness actors in northwestern Sierra...
This dissertation charts transformations in social control mechanisms in a rural district of southea...
In the late eighteenth century, the British colony of Sierra Leone was founded as a settlement for s...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
This work focuses on the case of a single French slave-trading ship intercepted by the British Navy ...
This dissertation reveals local responses to, and influences on the nascent British colonialism, imp...
textIn my dissertation, I investigate how race, gender, and freedom intertwined in colonial Cuba’s s...
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its s...
<p>In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Ha...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...
“Freedom’s Edge” explores how enslaved people in the South Atlantic world engaged with the law to ac...
This dissertation explores a broad range of power relationships and struggles for authority in the e...
That Most Perfidious Institution is a study of Africans - slaves and slave owners - and their centra...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the...
This article investigates the causes of the resilience of slavery in the region of Tahoua in the Rep...
This dissertation focuses on slaves and peasants as self-consciousness actors in northwestern Sierra...
This dissertation charts transformations in social control mechanisms in a rural district of southea...
In the late eighteenth century, the British colony of Sierra Leone was founded as a settlement for s...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
This work focuses on the case of a single French slave-trading ship intercepted by the British Navy ...
This dissertation reveals local responses to, and influences on the nascent British colonialism, imp...
textIn my dissertation, I investigate how race, gender, and freedom intertwined in colonial Cuba’s s...
A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its s...
<p>In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Ha...
This article reconstructs and interprets the early history of the Liberated African villages of Sier...
“Freedom’s Edge” explores how enslaved people in the South Atlantic world engaged with the law to ac...
This dissertation explores a broad range of power relationships and struggles for authority in the e...
That Most Perfidious Institution is a study of Africans - slaves and slave owners - and their centra...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the...
This article investigates the causes of the resilience of slavery in the region of Tahoua in the Rep...
This dissertation focuses on slaves and peasants as self-consciousness actors in northwestern Sierra...
This dissertation charts transformations in social control mechanisms in a rural district of southea...