IV. The Establishment of the Sierra Leone Protectorate and the Insurrection of 1898
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9309607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Hargreaves (University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-80 |
| Publication date | 1956-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-6913 • E-ISSN: 2051-9818 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1474691300000330 |
| OpenAlex | W2506686023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 3 |
The Colony of Sierra Leone originated in settlements of freed slaves on the West African coast carried out on the initiative of British philanthropists in the later eighteenth century. For over a century, British responsibility was as far as possible restricted to the small mountainous peninsula on which Freetown stands, and to certain nearby islands; but influence was inevitably obtained over nearby coast and hinterland, and during the nineteenth century some additional territories were incorporated in the Colony, though not always brought under effective administration. In 1896 the remaining regions not conceded to be under French or Liberian influence were proclaimed a British Protectorate; which also included, for administrative purposes, certain chiefdoms formerly part of the Colony. In this period, therefore, the term ‘Colony’ is applied to the peninsula and islands originally settled, with a few predominantly tribal areas around the river Sherbro; the term ‘Protectorate’ to territories the size of Ireland, which form the great bulk of the area marked ‘Sierra Leone’ on a modern map, and whose social organization was at this time exclusively tribal. At the beginning of 1898 British officials began to collect a House Tax which had been imposed on three of the five districts of the Protectorate. In February, resistance to the tax by certain Temne chiefs developed into open warfare in the north, and at the end of April a series of savage attacks took place on British and American subjects, mostly of African birth and descent, among the Mende and Sherbro people further south. These two outbreaks constitute the insurrection to be studied in this paper
Ancient history · Archaeology · Chiefdom · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Geography · Human settlement · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Protectorate · Sierra leone · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 2023 (56) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |