The paradox of protection : the making of indirect rule in southern Sierra Leone, 1850-1915 / Trina Leah Hogg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogg, Trina Leah, 1980- Author.

Series:

African history and culture http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/2f542f06-0142-40cd-bfb8-bb241dbb5655

African history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal security--Law and legislation--Sierra Leone.

Internal security.

Sierra Leone--Politics and government--1808-1896.

Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone--Politics and government--1896-1961.

Physical Description:

xxx, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michiagan : Michigan State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"The Paradox of Protection: The Making of Indirect Rule in Southern Sierra Leone 1850-1915 uncovers how protection emerged as one of the central concepts through which Africans and Britons negotiated shifting meanings of law and economy from informal to formal rule. It shows how British protection schemes, an assemblage of written and unwritten legal strategies that aimed to safeguard British subjects and trade routes, paradoxically forged an enduring foundation of insecurity by criminalizing traditional security measures. Tracing the history of these promises of protection reveals how the African leaders who sought British alliances as leverage in their own longstanding disputes became increasingly vulnerable to physical and juridical violence. New forums like chieftaincy elections and criminal courts - while distinctly features of Protectorate rule - became spaces for Africans to debate enduring grievances over land and legitimacy. This book reveals how long-standing negotiations over protection on the frontier shaped the framework of colonial law and rule well into the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Coalitions and Conflicts: Physical and Legal Jurisdiction on the Sherbro Coast, 1840-1870

Treaties and Tribulations: Policing and Punitive Measures on the Sierra Leone Frontier

African Courts and Tongo Trials: The Jurisdiction Of Human Leopard Murder Cases 1881-1892

These Laws Are Too Strong for Us: Petitions, Poros, and Puugwei (the White Man's War), 1896-1898

Making Paramount Chiefs and Chiefdoms: Conflicts over Land and Leadership in the Protectorate, 1899-1915

Litigants and Leopards: The Human Leopard Society in Protectorate Laws and Courts, 1901-1914.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611865486

1611865484

9781611865479

1611865476

9781609177928

1609177924

9781628955552

1628955554

OCLC:

1511796804