Wallace Teska
Biographic Data
| ID | 679408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wallace Teska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wallace |
| FAMILY NAME | Teska |
| SIGNATURE | TESKA W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3970-2782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The White Man Forced Me to Work”: Disaggregating Slavery and Colonial Labor in Western Côte d'Ivoire, 1890–1940
This article examines the end of slavery and the rise of a new colonial labor regime in western Côte d'Ivoire. It scrutinizes broader historical patterns of the transition from bondage to free labor, arguing that the Ivorian case disrupts the popular assumption of a clear continuity between these distinct forms of work. In western Côte d'Ivoire, workers did not experience the imposition of colonial labor as a continuity with precolonial slavery, …
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857–1903
Arbitrating Abolition: Women’s Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan
This article examines how formerly enslaved people in the early colonial French Soudan (today Mali) negotiated and contested the meanings of marriage at the 'end of slavery'. Because the abolition of slavery in this region was unexpected, no one knew what the legal rules for marriages between emancipated slaves should look like after it occurred. But formerly enslaved people made their opinions known. This piece examines how former slaves' ideas …
Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–18
This article scrutinizes recent histories of colonial and international law that use metropolitan reactions to the ‘scandals of empire’ to project a reform-oriented version of European colonialism. In French West Africa, most scandals never reached the level of metropolitan debate; they hit dead ends in colonial bureaucracies. Analyzing one dead-end scandal, the M'Pésoba Affair, this article argues that colonial justice on the ground often adhere…
Dead-End Scandal in M'Pésoba: Local Politics and Colonial Justice in French West Africa, 1913–18
This article scrutinizes recent histories of colonial and international law that use metropolitan reactions to the ‘scandals of empire’ to project a reform-oriented version of European colonialism. In French West Africa, most scandals never reached the level of metropolitan debate; they hit dead ends in colonial bureaucracies. Analyzing one dead-end scandal, the M'Pésoba Affair, this article argues that colonial justice on the ground often adhere…
Making Marriages at the ‘End of Slavery’: Religion, Identity, and Law in the Early Colonial French Soudan
This article examines how formerly enslaved people in the early colonial French Soudan (today Mali) negotiated and contested the meanings of marriage at the 'end of slavery'. Because the abolition of slavery in this region was unexpected, no one knew what the legal rules for marriages between emancipated slaves should look like after it occurred. But formerly enslaved people made their opinions known. This piece examines how former slaves' ideas …
The White Man Forced Me to Work”: Disaggregating Slavery and Colonial Labor in Western Côte d'Ivoire, 1890–1940
This article examines the end of slavery and the rise of a new colonial labor regime in western Côte d'Ivoire. It scrutinizes broader historical patterns of the transition from bondage to free labor, arguing that the Ivorian case disrupts the popular assumption of a clear continuity between these distinct forms of work. In western Côte d'Ivoire, workers did not experience the imposition of colonial labor as a continuity with precolonial slavery, …
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal: Mothers, Children, Resistance, and Vulnerabilities, 1857–1903
Arbitrating Abolition: Women’s Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907
African history and culture studies (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · North African History and Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works)