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    The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the African Slave Trade. Alastair Hazell. Constable. [pounds sterling]16.99. [xii] + 352 pages. ISBN 978-1-84529-672-8. This is an enthralling account of the slave trade in Zanzibar in the nineteenth century and of the attempts of one man. Sir John Kirk, to end it. Kirk had been part of Livingstone's explorations in the 1860s and had had troubled relations with the great man. Where they agreed was in their opposition to slavery and the continuing trade in Africa, centred in Zanzibar and still flourishing in the 1870s. Using surviving MSS the author traces John Kirk's involvement with Livingstone, who could be difficult, to say the least, from the doomed Zambesi expedition. He then moves to Kirk's return to Africa in 1866, this time to Zanzibar as medical officer at the British consulate. The island was governed by the Mohammedan Sultan who benefited financially from the slave trade. Through a mastery of the trade's economics and through personal bravery Kirk was able to implement British policy to end the trade. He also helped Livingstone in his latest adventure and suffered at the hands of the egotistic missionary and the equally egotistic journalist, Stanley. While Kirk's work did not totally end the slave trade in East Africa--this only occurred in the 1890s--it was a major step forward. In this book we have not only the rehabilitation of a man who has been too frequently put into Livingstone's shadows but an account of the African slave trade seen at first hand by one who worked to end it.
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    the african mail
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FIREARMS, HORSES, AND SLAVE SOLDIERS: THE MILITARY HISTORY OF AFRICAN SLAVERY.pdf - 1 views

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  • standing. Beyond the range of ships' guns, Europeans held no significant military advantage and enjoyed little success against African forces until the n
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      When the europeans arrived in Angola, they had no advantage over the indigenous people even though they had guns
  • Before the late nineteenth century and the appearance of the Maxim gun, European firearms conferred only a modest ad vantage to their bearers, not a d
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      very little advantage against people native to angola.
  • quences of the huge num bers of firearms imported from Europe to the Atlantic coast of Afri
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      thus resulting in the trading of guns and ammunitions between europeans and africans.
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  • Although Africans sought to fit firearms into the traditional fighting methods, they also recognized the need for new tech niques to take advantage of the n
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      although guns had a negative impact as it incited violence and death, africans-including Angolans knew this could help them in battles as well as to protect themselves.
  • he introduction of firearms differentially impacted societies of varying complexity; firearms meant some thing quite different to roving bands of hunter-gatherers than they did to states founded on military conquest.25
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      tln219119163 on 18 May 23
       
      hunter gathers used firearms to kill animals and hunt them for food. the advancement and introduction of firearms made their job easier as they did not have to use self made weapons but rather guns. in terms of military aspects, the introduction and trade of guns resulted in more conflict and a fight for superiority
  • . British 'Angola guns'—cheap, unproved long-barrel flint lock muskets—dominated the weapons trade along the Atlantic coast. Firearms in the eighteenth century were absolutely central to the trade of people for goods. Although they did not usually comprise the bulk of goods traded—muskets and gunpowder accounted for about 10 percent of the cargo offloaded on the Loango coast (present-day Angola) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, third behind textiles and liquor— trading would seldom take place unless powder and shot were included. Some quantity of guns and gunpowder was a part of virtually every purchase of slaves. No other commodities were so indispensable.26
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      tln219119163 on 18 May 23
       
      Angola became a place for trading of firearms even though it hadnt gained that much attraction. this is due to angola having a trading port between europe
  • Europeans fostered the slave trade through their control of guns, which they would trade only for slaves, the guns in turn providing the means to acquire more slaves to buy more guns, and so ad infinitum. In this view, Africans conducted war to supply the slave trade, and sold slaves chiefly to obtain the weaponry that allowed them to seize more slaves. Slave exports rose in direct proportion to the quantity of firearms import
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      tln219119163 on 18 May 23
       
      guns were essential in the slave trade and became a part of the slave trade in angola because guns were needed to control and instil fear on slaves so that they could be traded and more guns were sold to gain more control thus the name gun-slave cycle
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Guns dont colonise people...'- the role and use of firearms in pre-colonial and colonia... - 1 views

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  • from the slave trade to pacification and colonisation
  • The argument followed that ‘the importation of guns was the principal reason for warfare within Africa and that it was by means of such wars that gun-toting Africans supplied the Atlantic economy with slaves’. 10
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      tln219119163 on 18 May 23
       
      if guns were not brought to africa, there would be no warefare within africa because there was nothing created that was more powerful and could enforce control other than guns.
  • while imports of firearms closely tracked imports of slaves, a guns-forslaves equation is too simple to describe the complexities of political transformations
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      tln219119163 on 18 May 23
       
      the importation of guns altered angola and africa as a whole as well as brining in so many changes with regards to power
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  • In addition, Richards notes that the firearm trade peaked in the 1830s (although he gives no figures for this peak), which again weakens the ‘slave–gun cycle’ theory. 13 Firearms were being imported well before the heyday of the slave trade and their importation continued to rise in many key slaving areas after its abolition.
  • This revolution brought about significant changes in the functioning of arms that made them more suited to warfare and hunting.
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      firearms caused innovation. better for warefare and hunting respectively
  • gunpowder with greater protection from rain and humidity, and made the process of firing much quicker. 30
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      advantage
  • firearms were more reliable, handled better and were more durable.
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      advantage
  • Whilst other historians have mentioned these military and political transformations, they have never been spelt out at such length or with such technological determinism.
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      determanism: the doctrine that all events including human action are decided through external will. Basically the use of guns would have happened whether sooner or later because that is just how the world was supposed to develop.
  • nteraction between technology and change in Africa.
  • menacing and violent to justify full “pacification”.’ 43
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      disadvantage
  • Guns, Race and Power is an important contribution, but by no means an exhaustive one.
  • It also allows the firearms trade to be correlated with other plottable variables, such as hunting exports (ivory, feathers, skins), to reveal otherwise invisible inter-relationships for further inquiry
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Firearms, horse, and slave soldiers the military history of african slavery.pdf - 2 views

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The British gunpowder industry and Atlantic slavery, c.1701-1807 - Economic History Soc... - 1 views

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Origins of American Slavery - 3 views

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The Uncomfortable Truth About Slavery | Ben Salfield | The Blogs - 0 views

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Slave trade on Zanzibar: "I personally witnessed the strangling of six men" - Explore A... - 1 views

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  • Slave trade on Zanzibar: “I personally witnessed the strangling of six men” - Explore Africa
  • truly abysmal
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      utterly horrible
  • “People were killed by the stick, by the dagger, and I saw with my own eyes how six men were strangled to death. (…) A newborn was torn away from his mother’s breast and tossed in the bushes crying
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      khosifaith on 26 Apr 23
       
      this extract explains how slaves in Zanzibar were brutally treated and the consequences or punishments they went through.
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  • History is clear: wherever there is demand, supply arrives. This is what we saw happen with the demand for ivory and for cheap workers back then, and with cheap clothing and products now
  • This renders a visit to the East Africa Slave Trade Exhibition not merely an extremely impressive history lesson, but an urgent appeal to our capacity for self-reflection as well
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    Article on the kinds of punishments slaves received in Zanzibar during the 1800s
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'Siendi' (I won't go): concubines' activism in the abolition of slavery in the Zanzibar... - 2 views

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    In particular, the freedom of enslaved women claimed as concubines was a topic of discussion among British officials as they pondered whether, when, and how to completely abolish slavery in the Zanzibar Islands. These discussions shed light on the gendered components of abolition as well as the action of women who had been sold into slavery who teamed up with Friends missionaries to press the British to abolitionize slavery entirely in the islands. Young women who sought their liberation by refuting the idea that their enslavement rendered them immoral, rather than a generous colonial power, claimed and demanded abolition.
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The End of Slavery in Zanzibar and British East Africa.pdf - 2 views

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  • The End of Slavery in Zanzibar and British East Africa
  • periods. In the first place, there was the series of attacks directed against the Slave Trade, that is to say, the seizure and transport of raw slaves from the African mainland into Zanzibar and from Zanzibar to Arabia, and, in the second place, there are the steps more recently taken in connection with the institution of domestic slavery.
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      khosifaith on 26 Apr 23
       
      this explains the two different periods a protracted war against slavery in Zanzibar.
  • It was only, therefore, by closing as far as possible the sources whence the supplies of raw slaves were drawn, by blockading the coast, and, as the power and influence exercised by Great Britain in East Africa gradually increased, by inducing the Sultan, in return for some benefit offered or conferred, to close one or other of the channels through which natives of Africa were carried away into slavery, that any advance in the direction of freedom could for a long time be made.
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      the progress in the direction of freedom could only be made by closing as much as possible the sources from which the supplies of raw slaves were drawn, by blocking the coast, and, as Great Britain's power and influence in East Africa gradually increased.
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  • traffic. The first step in this direction was the incorporation of the Imperial British East Africa Company in i888, which was quickly followed by the transfer of a large portion of the Zanzibar mainland dominions to the German Government, by the establishment of a British Protectorate in Uganda, and by the extension of European administration throughout the central regions of the African Continent
  • are two names which stand out by themselves-that of Sir John Kirk, who laboured in Zanzibar from 1868 to 1887, and that of the late Sir Lloyd Mathews, who for over twenty-five years occupied
  • earlier anti-slavery enactments was due.
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      khosifaith on 26 Apr 23
       
      due to past anti-slavery actions.
  • A Treaty was signed by Seyyid Barghash bin Said in 1873 providing that the export of slaves from the African mainland, whether designed for transport from one part of His Highness's dominions to another or for conveyance to foreign ports, should entirely
  • cease. It was also agreed that the main slave-market in Zanzibar (on the site of which the English Cathedral now stands), as well as any other public markets in the Sultanate for the buying or selling of imported slaves, should be closed, and this measure was carried into effect in the course of the same year.
  • In 1876 a Proclamation was issued by Seyyid Barghash abolishing slavery on the Benadir Coast and in the district of Kismayu, which were then administered by His Highness. Two further Proclamations published the same year made it an offence to bring slaves from the interior and sell them at the Coast for conveyance to Pemba, and forbade the fitting out of slave caravans by* His Highness's subjects. In 1885 Seyyid Barghash issued a Proclamation confirming his previous orders and prohibiting all exportation of slaves from his dominions.
  • ; the Arab plantation-owners were given an opportunity of replacing their slaves by free labour; the slaves had time to consider their position, and, in a large number of cases, to make such arrangements with their masters as enabled them to enjoy all the advantages of freedom without giving up their old homes and the prospect of certain and regular employment; and the Government were able at once to provide for the future of the freed slaves, to organise an efficient labour supply for the assistance of the planters, and, incidentally, to make due provision for the maintenance of the public revenue and for the prosecution of reforms for the benefit of the native population
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      khosifaith on 26 Apr 23
       
      end of slavery!
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    The following journal describes the progression of slavery in British East Africa and Zanzibar and how it came to an end in the 1800s.
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