‘It Was Necessary to Do Something With Those Women’: Colonial Governance and the ‘Disposal’ of Women and Girls in Early Nineteenth‐Century Sierra Leone

RT @maevecsryan: Longing to kick off 2022 by reading about colonial governance and the ‘disposal’ of women and girls in 19th C Sierra Leone…

RT @maevecsryan: Longing to kick off 2022 by reading about colonial governance and the ‘disposal’ of women and girls in 19th C Sierra Leone…

Read this today, *loved it* - fascinating on girlhood/womanhood, labour, marriage - and fills massive early colonial gap in my own research. Also makes important methodological contribution. One for @histchild #twitterstorians. Thanks for sharing (and the

RT @maevecsryan: Longing to kick off 2022 by reading about colonial governance and the ‘disposal’ of women and girls in 19th C Sierra Leone…