{"id":42,"date":"2015-10-01T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-10-02T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T06:58:51","slug":"colonial-violence-and-the-pacification-of-the-sierra-leone-protectorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/2015\/10\/01\/colonial-violence-and-the-pacification-of-the-sierra-leone-protectorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Violence and the pacification of the Sierra Leone Protectorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/77\/Bai_Bureh_(1898).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"316\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bai Bureh, one of the rebel leaders in the 1898 Hut Tax War<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In September 2015, Christine Whyte participated in a workshop on colonial violence at Queen Mary University, London organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/4585-dr-kim-wagner\">Dr Kim Wagner.<\/a> Her paper, \u00a0&#8216;&#8221;A very carnival of slaughter&#8221; Charles Braithwaite Wallis and the counter-insurgency campaign in Sierra Leone&#8217; analysed the form\u00a0and\u00a0nature of colonial violence in the so-called Hut Tax War of 1898 in the Protectorate of Sierra Leone. It closely examined the memoir and &#8216;bush-fighting guide&#8217; of colonial commander, Charles Braithwaite Wallis\u00a0for insight into why the repression of the revolt took a particularly brutal turn in the summer of 1898.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop, &#8216;Cultures of Colonial Violence and Warfare&#8217; broadly addressed the question: &#8216;What was &#8216;colonial&#8217; about colonial violence and counter-insurgency?&#8217; brought together scholars\u00a0working on various aspects of colonial violence, from the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 to\u00a0murders in colonial Indochina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2015, Christine Whyte participated in a workshop on colonial violence at Queen Mary University, London organised by Dr Kim Wagner. Her paper, \u00a0&#8216;&#8221;A very carnival of slaughter&#8221; Charles Braithwaite Wallis and the counter-insurgency campaign in Sierra Leone&#8217; analysed the form\u00a0and\u00a0nature of colonial violence in the so-called Hut Tax War of 1898 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,146890],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}