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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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      khosifaith on 26 Apr 23
       
      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 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 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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      khosifaith on 26 Apr 23
       
      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.
    • khosifaith
      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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