The Transatlantic slave trade and the illusions of "freedom" in the province of freedom, 1787-1790 -- The restitutive justice policy of the Sierra Leone Company, 1791-1808 -- No taxation without representation, 1820-1920 -- Citizens and protected persons, 1920-1951 -- Racism and the rise of party politics, 1950-1960 -- Class conflict: chiefs, politicians, and peasants and the revolts of 1955 and 1956 -- Women in the colonial spaces: from the founding of the colony to 1960 -- Political independence and the Africanization project, 1960-1967 -- The narratives on human rights in a neopatrimonial state, 1967-1984 -- Ethnopolitics, tribal-nationalism and the youth empowerment crisis, 1985-1991 -- (Wo)men's rights in the neopatrimonial/ethnopolitical spaces, 1967-1991 -- The idea of liberation in the war communities, 1991-2002: representation, adaptation, and outcomes -- Contested truth: the Truth Commission and restorative justice, 2002-2004 -- The War Victims' Fund and the emergence of contributive justice after 2004 -- The quest for another province of freedom: the Human Rights Commission and the Constitutional Review Committee, 1994-2016.

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