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The Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya.pdf - 1 views

Molele Pheeha History 2A

shared by pheeha21 on 25 Apr 23 - No Cached

This victory also opened the way for Oman merchants to begin engaging on a large scale in Indian Ocean trade and to invest their profits into date production based on slave labor.
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By the 1830s, clove plantation agriculture had experienced a boom in Zanzibar and this saw the increase in local slave populations from 15,000 in 1819 to over 100,000 in the 1830s
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Elite immigrants from Zanzibar moved to the Malindi-Mambrui area after 1861, where they established large plantations and by 1884 they were exporting almost 13,500 tons of grain per year
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There were also places associated with the refuge of freed captives and runaway slaves; these included settlements associated with European missionaries such as Rabai and Freretown
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There were four principal caravan routes; the first started from the port town Mombasa and traveled inland into Mariakani, Kibwezi, Nzaui, and Kitui before curving westwards into Machakos.
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  The first route that used to transport slaves and other resources that were in demand.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The first route that used to transport slaves and other resources that were in demand.</div>
  
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This happened because the overland route had not yet been banned at the time and also because the coast north of Lamu was not within the Sultanate of Zanzibar’s territory and thus slave merchants could transport slaves along the sea without any problem.
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In another agreement, the Hammerton Treaty of 1845, the Sultan agreed to prohibit exportation and importation of slaves – though not their transportation – along the coast of East Africa.
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cinderellaochu on 05 May 23

Well done!

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Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa.pdf - 2 views

Molele Pheeha History 2A

shared by pheeha21 on 23 Apr 23 - No Cached

Africans to Reunion and the Seychelles (Cooper, 1977; Nwulia, 1975; Sheriff, 1987). Between 1820 and 1830, 15,000 slaves per year were exported
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Oman, most of the enslaved people would have ended up living on the Coast itself.2 By the 1850s, Omani, Indian, and Swahili entrepreneurs introduced clove plantations into Zanzibar and Pemba and transformed the Coast from a primarily mercantile and craft economy into a plantation economy
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; Lugard, 1968; New, 1874; Thomson, 1885). Slave and cattle raiding had forced Tsavo and Taveta peoples to move to fortified localities in the hills and mountains (Bravman
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Chagga, Pare, and Ukambani, only to find their residents similarly afflicted. Parents reportedly sold children into slavery for food. People starved to death in houses, on roadsides, in gardens, everywhere and were left unburied for no one had strength to dig graves; the number of bodies was too numerous to be disposed by hyena or other scavengers.
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cinderellaochu on 05 May 23

Good material but not from the required source. This is from Springer.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Good material but not from the required source. This is from Springer.</div>

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