{"id":"https://openalex.org/W3092938243","doi":null,"title":"\"Here in the Queen's Territory, Every Man and Woman are Free\": Slavery and the Lives of the Enslaved in Late Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone","display_name":"\"Here in the Queen's Territory, Every Man and Woman are Free\": Slavery and the Lives of the Enslaved in Late Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone","publication_year":2020,"publication_date":"2020-08-11","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W3092938243","mag":"3092938243"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/37696","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","pdf_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400473","display_name":"YorkSpace (York University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I192455969","host_organization_name":"York University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I192455969"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Electronic Thesis or Dissertation"},"volume":null,"type":"dissertation","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5044670057","display_name":"Myles Ali","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Myles Ali","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5044670057"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12144","display_name":"Colonialism, slavery, and trade","score":0.9897000193595886,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12144","display_name":"Colonialism, slavery, and trade","score":0.9897000193595886,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14395","display_name":"African history and culture studies","score":0.009499999694526196,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12512","display_name":"History of Colonial Brazil","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/slavery","display_name":"slavery","score":0.7419999837875366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/sierra-leone","display_name":"Sierra Leone","score":0.7689999938011169},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/freetown","display_name":"Freetown","score":0.7770000100135803},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/fugitive-slaves","display_name":"fugitive slaves","score":0.8259999752044678},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/self-liberation","display_name":"self-liberation","score":0.8569999933242798},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/slave-labor","display_name":"slave labor","score":0.46799999475479126},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/forced-labor","display_name":"forced labor","score":0.859000027179718},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/enslaved-people","display_name":"enslaved people","score":0.44200000166893005},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/slave-migration","display_name":"slave migration","score":0.3409999907016754},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/african-diaspora","display_name":"African diaspora","score":0.6480000019073486},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/atlantic-world","display_name":"Atlantic world","score":0.9330000281333923},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/19th-century","display_name":"19th century","score":0.5759999752044678}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C3018567284","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1044","display_name":"Sierra leone","level":2,"score":0.9280513525009155},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781321516","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310836","display_name":"Queen (butterfly)","level":3,"score":0.8586316704750061},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C53553401","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47307","display_name":"Genealogy","level":1,"score":0.4534570574760437},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.4243987202644348},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C195244886","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41493","display_name":"Ancient history","level":1,"score":0.4189276695251465},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.383103609085083},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C205649164","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071","display_name":"Geography","level":0,"score":0.3397384285926819},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2549261","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43455","display_name":"Ethnology","level":1,"score":0.3061947226524353},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.07385033369064331},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C90856448","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431","display_name":"Zoology","level":1,"score":0.046298593282699585},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780653484","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22651","display_name":"Hymenoptera","level":2,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/37696","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","pdf_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400473","display_name":"YorkSpace (York University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I192455969","host_organization_name":"York University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I192455969"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Electronic Thesis or Dissertation"},{"id":"mag:3092938243","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37696","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/37696","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","pdf_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10315/37696","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400473","display_name":"YorkSpace (York University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I192455969","host_organization_name":"York University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I192455969"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Electronic Thesis or Dissertation"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320319918","display_name":"York University","ror":"https://ror.org/05fq50484"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320334617","display_name":"Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada","ror":"https://ror.org/04j5jqy92"}],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W3092938243.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W3092938243.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":41,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W579660060","https://openalex.org/W584139720","https://openalex.org/W629179641","https://openalex.org/W641052454","https://openalex.org/W655299657","https://openalex.org/W655655186","https://openalex.org/W1503212031","https://openalex.org/W1508561247","https://openalex.org/W1526730674","https://openalex.org/W1569043109","https://openalex.org/W1570737405","https://openalex.org/W1583871279","https://openalex.org/W1604195909","https://openalex.org/W1963811464","https://openalex.org/W1966492026","https://openalex.org/W1973303785","https://openalex.org/W1994627655","https://openalex.org/W1995969851","https://openalex.org/W2005755958","https://openalex.org/W2019625519","https://openalex.org/W2024013857","https://openalex.org/W2036505584","https://openalex.org/W2058775442","https://openalex.org/W2068491424","https://openalex.org/W2075523788","https://openalex.org/W2078505115","https://openalex.org/W2099480097","https://openalex.org/W2099909355","https://openalex.org/W2119459160","https://openalex.org/W2149010473","https://openalex.org/W2262299062","https://openalex.org/W2277304259","https://openalex.org/W2324532733","https://openalex.org/W2334442161","https://openalex.org/W2466001754","https://openalex.org/W2469831009","https://openalex.org/W2769645610","https://openalex.org/W2797843203","https://openalex.org/W3022267112","https://openalex.org/W4234644555","https://openalex.org/W4238195736"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2094832755","https://openalex.org/W3009596949","https://openalex.org/W2305428262","https://openalex.org/W167561167","https://openalex.org/W6904929451","https://openalex.org/W4408121589","https://openalex.org/W2809163903","https://openalex.org/W1967087971","https://openalex.org/W4250161458","https://openalex.org/W2502588573"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"In":[0],"the":[1,5,20,27,33,39,53,60,67,84,94,107,119,125,131,139,181,185,204,209,216,224,231,281,294,301,319,324,330,334,340],"late":[2,217],"eighteenth":[3],"century,":[4],"British":[6],"colony":[7,34],"of":[8,29,55,69,86,98,115,121,133,143,145,172,184,197,199,208,230,255,284,303,326,346,349],"Sierra":[9,87,95,122,213,234,265,307],"Leone":[10,96,123,214,235,266],"was":[11,267],"founded":[12],"as":[13],"a":[14,244],"settlement":[15],"for":[16,101],"self-emancipated":[17],"slaves":[18,73,117],"from":[19,118],"American":[21],"South":[22],"via":[23],"Nova":[24],"Scotia.":[25],"Yet,":[26],"practice":[28],"slavery":[30,156,263,327],"persisted":[31],"in":[32,82,93,212,233,264,306,323,328],"and":[35,78,111,141,157,163,195,228,242,257,271,311,333,343],"its":[36],"hinterlands":[37],"throughout":[38],"entire":[40,126],"nineteenth":[41,127,218],"century.":[42,128,219],"Since":[43],"colonial":[44],"administrations":[45],"were":[46,160],"unable":[47],"or":[48],"unwilling":[49],"to":[50,59,103,149,260,299,318],"eradicate":[51],"slavery,":[52],"responsibility":[54],"emancipation":[56],"often":[57],"fell":[58],"enslaved":[61,147,210,232,288],"themselves.":[62],"This":[63,89],"dissertation":[64],"concentrates":[65],"on":[66,130,251],"records":[68,183],"over":[70],"1100":[71],"fugitive":[72],"who":[74],"fled":[75],"their":[76,80],"masters":[77],"claimed":[79],"freedom":[81],"Freetown,":[83],"capital":[85],"Leone.":[88],"documentation":[90],"is":[91],"found":[92],"Registers":[97,132,182],"Escaped":[99,134],"Slaves":[100],"1874":[102],"1894,":[104],"which":[105],"features":[106],"largest,":[108],"most":[109],"comprehensive,":[110],"longest":[112],"continued":[113],"record":[114],"self-liberated":[116],"regions":[120],"during":[124,215],"Drawing":[129],"Slaves,":[135],"this":[136,315],"study":[137,325],"foregrounds":[138],"identities":[140],"experiences":[142],"hundreds":[144,198],"formerly":[146],"people":[148],"emphasize":[150],"how":[151,223],"vast,":[152],"impersonal":[153],"processes,":[154],"like":[155],"slave":[158,304],"trading,":[159],"transformed,":[161],"endured,":[162],"lived":[164],"by":[165,287,338],"real":[166],"human":[167],"beings.":[168],"\\n":[169],"\\nMy":[170],"analysis":[171],"these":[173,252],"ledgers":[174],"addresses":[175],"three":[176],"major":[177],"concerns.":[178],"First,":[179],"using":[180],"names,":[186],"ages,":[187],"ethnicities,":[188],"origins,":[189],"families,":[190],"previous":[191],"owners,":[192],"resettlement":[193],"patterns,":[194],"testimonials":[196],"runaway":[200],"slaves,":[201],"I":[202,249,277,291],"provide":[203],"first":[205],"comprehensive":[206],"accounting":[207],"population":[211],"My":[220],"findings":[221],"demonstrate":[222],"individual":[225,347],"identities,":[226],"lives,":[227],"migrations":[229],"are":[236],"indeed":[237],"recoverable":[238],"with":[239],"considerable":[240],"precision":[241],"at":[243],"sufficiently":[245],"large":[246],"scale.":[247],"Second,":[248],"rely":[250],"subjects":[253],"accounts":[254],"mistreatment":[256],"forced":[258],"labour":[259,305],"argue":[261],"that":[262],"significantly":[268],"more":[269],"exploitative":[270],"violent":[272],"than":[273],"we":[274],"previously":[275],"understood.":[276],"not":[278],"only":[279],"identify":[280],"principal":[282],"forms":[283],"abuse":[285],"suffered":[286],"people,":[289],"but":[290],"also":[292],"uncover":[293],"specific":[295],"work":[296],"they":[297],"conducted":[298],"reveal":[300],"centrality":[302],"Leones":[308],"urban,":[309],"rural,":[310],"interregional":[312],"economies.":[313],"Lastly,":[314],"project":[316],"contributes":[317],"re-emerging":[320],"biographical":[321],"trend":[322],"Africa,":[329],"African":[331],"Diaspora,":[332],"modern":[335],"Atlantic":[336],"World":[337],"emphasizing":[339],"strategies,":[341],"movements,":[342],"overall":[344],"resolve":[345],"survivors":[348],"slavery.":[350]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2020-10-22T00:00:00"}