"Freedom But Nothing Else": The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956
Despite its hopeful, almost utopian origins, by the onset of the nineteenth century, the settlement was beset by disease, hunger, and hostility from its neighbors.1 At this point, Zachary Macaulay was appointed Governor and promoted a system of apprenticeship to "civilize" the ex-slaves wh...
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| Vydané v: | The International journal of African historical studies Ročník 48; číslo 2; s. 231 - 250 |
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| Abstract | Despite its hopeful, almost utopian origins, by the onset of the nineteenth century, the settlement was beset by disease, hunger, and hostility from its neighbors.1 At this point, Zachary Macaulay was appointed Governor and promoted a system of apprenticeship to "civilize" the ex-slaves who formed the majority of the new colonists.2 Macaulay's scheme took hold, and through the nineteenth century apprenticeship became one main route for rescued and runaway slaves into Freetown society.3 Internationally, apprenticeship was incorporated into both the Slave Trade Abolition Act and the Slavery Abolition Act in Great Britain and instituted in the other ports used for the resettlement of rescued slaves, such as the Cape Colony and British West Indies.4 These resettled slaves, termed "Liberated Africans" in the Sierra Leone Colony, were often forcibly enlisted into the British military or placed in apprenticeships to established settlers until the system was abolished in 1838.5 From 1838 until 1848, Sierra Leonean settlers were targeted as a useful source of labor for other colonies to replace, in part, slave labor. [...]though, Melville is persuaded by one of her servants that "King-yard child good for work" and took on a receptive child servant herself.8 However, this practice was also abolished in 1848, "having been found by experience liable to degenerate into a condition scarcely consistent with the advantages of that entire freedom.\n'" The ex-slave class was already vulnerable to exploitation through lack of access to land when the ideology of a "transition to freedom" through forced labor became the technical strategy of community development. |
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| AbstractList | Despite its hopeful, almost utopian origins, by the onset of the nineteenth century, the settlement was beset by disease, hunger, and hostility from its neighbors.1 At this point, Zachary Macaulay was appointed Governor and promoted a system of apprenticeship to "civilize" the ex-slaves who formed the majority of the new colonists.2 Macaulay's scheme took hold, and through the nineteenth century apprenticeship became one main route for rescued and runaway slaves into Freetown society.3 Internationally, apprenticeship was incorporated into both the Slave Trade Abolition Act and the Slavery Abolition Act in Great Britain and instituted in the other ports used for the resettlement of rescued slaves, such as the Cape Colony and British West Indies.4 These resettled slaves, termed "Liberated Africans" in the Sierra Leone Colony, were often forcibly enlisted into the British military or placed in apprenticeships to established settlers until the system was abolished in 1838.5 From 1838 until 1848, Sierra Leonean settlers were targeted as a useful source of labor for other colonies to replace, in part, slave labor. [...]though, Melville is persuaded by one of her servants that "King-yard child good for work" and took on a receptive child servant herself.8 However, this practice was also abolished in 1848, "having been found by experience liable to degenerate into a condition scarcely consistent with the advantages of that entire freedom.\n'" The ex-slave class was already vulnerable to exploitation through lack of access to land when the ideology of a "transition to freedom" through forced labor became the technical strategy of community development. |
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