ABSTRACT
The end of the Hut Tax War signaled the start of a lengthy process of assimilation of the protectorate’s people into mainstream national politics. The Foreign Jurisdiction Act of 1890 made it unconstitutional to appoint or select the people of the wider protectorate into the Legislative Council. The colony of Freetown had begun experimenting with western primary and secondary education as far back as 1790, and with university education in the 1820s. In the elections that followed in October 1924, of the 25,000 enfranchised population, the voter registration office only registered 1,866 people: 1,016 in central Freetown, 511 in peri-urban Freetown and 339 in rural Freetown. At the international level, Britain had provided leadership to end the transatlantic slave trade. British citizens have the right that they shall be governed only by British protected persons as are the same status as themselves.
