{"id":170,"date":"2015-11-26T17:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-12-09T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:28:21","slug":"new-publication-on-development-and-forced-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/2015\/11\/26\/new-publication-on-development-and-forced-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication on development and forced labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/11\/SierraLeone002.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/11\/SierraLeone002-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Stamp depicting an worker panning for diamonds. \" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/11\/SierraLeone002-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/11\/SierraLeone002-624x382.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/11\/SierraLeone002.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1961 stamp celebrating Sierra Leonean independence.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Christine Whyte has recently published an article in the <em>International Journal of African Historical Studies<\/em> on the post-slavery history of the Sierra Leone Protectorate. This article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/ijahs\/publications\/?pid=586\">&#8216;&#8221;Freedom but Nothing Else&#8221;: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956<\/a>&#8216; traces\u00a0two particular resonances of post-slavery\u00a0history in Sierra Leone, from the abolition of slavery in 1928 to the riots around decolonization in 1955\u201356. The first was the state-led efforts to engineer a transition to freedom for ex-slaves that would keep them engaged as willing workers. The second was the ways in which Sierra Leonean elites sought to control the labor of the ex-slave classes by relegating them to the position of a marginalized \u201cyouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Whyte has recently published an article in the International Journal of African Historical Studies on the post-slavery history of the Sierra Leone Protectorate. This article, &#8216;&#8221;Freedom but Nothing Else&#8221;: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956&#8216; traces\u00a0two particular resonances of post-slavery\u00a0history in Sierra Leone, from the abolition of slavery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}