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diigo.com/0serub Precious Nontokozo Bosiki
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    gale pdf
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The East African Slave Trade, 1861-1895: The "Southern" Complex.pdf - 2 views

diigo.com/0serva Mandisa Mahlangu
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  • June. Chiefs were rarely able to guarantee sufficient slaves even for later arrivals, and frustrated buyers frequently either tried to take enslave local people, particularly if they had already expended considerable sums on trade "preliminaries," or sailed north to the more stable markets of Iboin
    • mandisamahlangu
      mandisamahlangu on 25 Apr 23
       
      The labor for for plantation and trading activities was needed so that is why the swahili and Arab demanded slaves.
  • controller of the Mahajanga customs, died in 1875, he owed $11,211 to French partners.30
    • mandisamahlangu
      mandisamahlangu on 25 Apr 23
       
      These islands were attractive sources of slaves because they were different so that made it to be the potential of being slaves and being sold to Arab and Swahili traders.
  • The voracious demand for slaves from the islands of the western Indian Ocean was also reflected in the intensification of slave raiding in the interior of East Afric
    • mandisamahlangu
      mandisamahlangu on 25 Apr 23
       
      This was due to the fact that there was a high demand for labor in East Africa.
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Abolition and European Imperialism in East Africa, 1845-1893 - Digital Collections for ... - 2 views

dcc.newberry.org/?p=14448 Mbali Makenete
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  • In the 14th century, Kilwa, off the coast of modern day southern Tanzania, was the center of the East African gold trade
  • slavery in Africa differed from what we know as slavery in the United States in that the enslaved were more like kin than chattel.
  • Muslim slaveholders often manumitted their slaves, and many slaves converted to Islam before gaining their freedom
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      religion was forced upon slaves, because that's what they saw around them (religion practices ) some slaves were born into slavery forcing them take up culture, nationality and religion practices that are not of their own because those that knew were either long gone or had forgotten about the cultural practices.
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  • The economy of 19th century Zanzibar was thus largely dependent on slavery and the slave trade
  • the abolitionist movement in the Atlantic world had successfully abolished the slave trade,
  • The abolitionist movement in East Africa was both a humanitarian and an imperialist endeavor.
  • But abolitionism was also imperial and colonia
  • l. Imperialists believed in the necessity and benefit of establishing overseas colonies, creating an empire in the process
  • he abolitionist movement, whose goal was bringing peace to a violent slavery-ridden land, helped accelerate violent conquest in the form of the European scramble for Africa.
  • While you may agree with their abolitionist views, you will need to interrogate the cultural biases they held against Africa and Africans.
  • hey had a very limited understanding of the language and culture of the Africans they encountered.
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      asanda on 25 Apr 23
       
      it show the bound book, Africa in a nut shell, for stamp album of money that they made by trade with them.
    • asanda
      asanda on 25 Apr 23
       
      it show the bound book, Africa in a nut shell, for stamp album of money that they made by trade with them. it all about income they were earn by exchanging guns and other goods
  • asanda on 25 Apr 23
     
    this news paper showing the exchange of guns and pricing they were earn by exchanging guns. it is column of money and guns that they were tranding during 1800s
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Manufacturing Crisis: Anti-slavery 'Humanitarianism' and Imperialism in East Africa, 18... - 1 views

diigo.com/0serwf Mbali Makenete'
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  • 1888 into 1890, ships from five European nations joined in a blockade to stop the ‘Arab slave trade’ in East Africa,
  • blockade was armed resistance against the German East Africa Company
  • Bushiri bin Salim
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  • blockade against the ‘Arab slave trade,’ an amorphous non-state enemy.
  • but they all cited the same duty to promote civilisation in Africa and end the slave trad
  • The blockade occurred in the interim between the two great international conferences of the Scramble for Africa, the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference and the 1889–1890 Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference.
  • he Brussels Conference has received attention from historians as either the culmination of the abolitionist movement or an early step in the development of modern humanitarian diplomacy
  • chauvinists
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      an anti-feminist
  • Suzanne Miers, for instance, argued that the Brussels Conference was driven by political interests hiding behind humanitarian goals, going to far as to describe the intersection of antislavery activism and politics as the ‘antislavery game.
  • antislavery for political goals
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      anti slavery was a piece or a part of a game that was created by colonizers to create a better picture for Africa and its civilization but instead there was a hidden agenda of power that they only had access to
  • The blockade was the most direct international action against the slave trade at the height of humanitarian activism around the issue but has largely been left out of narratives about 1880s antislavery. It demonstrates a different approach to antislavery than was pursued at either conference.
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      this shows that even though that slavery was abolished before the 1890s, there was still slavery taking place. the slave trade was pretty much still active in certain parts of the world allowing slavery to still carry on.
  • The blockade failed to achieve both its short-term and its long-term aims. It provoked anger among pro-imperial interests in both the United Kingdom and Germany.
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      the blockade created power conflict between 2 power hungry countries
  • The blockade exacerbated international conflicts rather than relieving them.
  • Anglo-German alliance to lead humanitarianism and the colonisation of Afric
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      the blockade created power conflict between 2 international countries that had great power
  • The individual national action of the 1890s overtook other methods of humanitarianism in empire.
  • It combined claims that Africans needed European help with attacks on Islam as antimodern
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      the lack of African history, made Africa to be voiceless
  • Descriptions of slavery inevitably discussed an ‘Arab’ or ‘Muslim’ slave trade (often conflating racial and religious labels)
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      religion and race became influential in making slavery bigger it was supposed to.
  • Africans appear in their rhetoric only as objects for European subjects to save.
  • They also downplayed Europe’s slave-trading past and glossed over the inconsistent implementation of antislavery policies.
  • East Africa had become the most dynamic region for the slave trade in the middle of the nineteenth century with the abolition of the slave trade in the Americas and British antislavery efforts in West Africa.
  • an increase in the use of slavery for production.
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The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s.pdf - 1 views

diigo.com/0serwk Mbali Makenete
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  • Daniel Laqua*
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      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      Daniel Laqua is Associate Professor of European History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. he explores the dynamics and tensions of transnational activism, his work covers a variety of international movements and organisations.
  • boundaries. It has been argued that anti-slavery boasted features of a 'transnational advocacy network' early on, as exemplified by the links between British and US abolitionists from the late eighteenth century o
  • Transnational ambitions featured explicitly in the remit of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) which, one year after its foundation in 18
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  • Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) which, one year after its foundation in
  • Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine, and Frank Trentmann
  • the transatlantic slave trade had all but ceased, with Cuba (1880/86) and Brazil (1888)
  • Diplomatic measures resulted in the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889-90, whose General Act contained legal provisions for the suppression of the slave trade in its countries of origin, as well as measures against the maritime slave trade and against the trade in spirits and firear
  • The anti-slavery campaigns of the late nineteenth century coincided with the era of 'high' or 'new' imperialism, raising important questions about the relationship between humanitarian activism and European expansion in Africa.
  • : Kevin Grant's study of the 'new slaveries' has explored the relation between British humanitarianism, transnational co-operation, and the promotion of a 'civilising missio
  • malia Ribi has located the anti-slavery activism of the inter-war period within a timeframe that stretches back to the nineteenth century.1
  • zanne Miers has discussed the broader context of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference and has traced the changing debates around slavery as an 'international issue'.1
  • nti-slavery internationalism
    • makenete
      makenete on 25 Apr 23
       
      slavery helped share views of religion. slavery expanded religions that were dominating at the time. slaves were forced into accepting some religion practices because of who had enslaved them.
  • development of the 'mechanics of internationalism' from the mid-nineteenth century constituted a second factor: an increase in international congresses and periodicals provided activists with an emerging 'movement repertoire'.16 T
  • July to December 1888, he addressed the African slave trade in a series of public lectures at churches in Brussels, Paris, and Rome as well as Prince's Hall in London.
  • Cardinal's campaign was connected to his work with the White Fathers, a missionary society he had founded in 1868.
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East Africa's forgotten slave trade - 1 views

www.diigo.com/...d62i Sinqobile Mbutsi History 2A
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    This picture depicts the place that was referred as the market slave, where enslaved Africans were transported before they were enslaved or bought to other countries.
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  • This country is the richest in ivory, which the natives are ready to sell for beads, cotton manufactures, &c, at an exceedingly low rate.
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      sethu77 on 26 Apr 23
       
      This in short means that the country was rich in terms of ivory and everything. They normally sold it to other countries or neighboring lands in order to get beads, for clothing of course and cotton in order to make any clothing material.
  • The traders of Zanzibar will be unable to compete in the ivory trade on the lake, as the expenses on the route are already extremely heavy, owing to the heavy tribute demanded by the numerous petty kings along the line of road. The steamers on the lake wül absolutely monopolize all ivory
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      sethu77 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Since the costs of the route are already quite high due to the high tribute expected by the several petty rulers along the line of road, the traders of Zanzibar will not be able to compete in the ivory trade on the lake. The lake's steamers completely took control over the market for ivory.
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African weapons and armor - History and facts with pics - Briefly.co.za - 1 views

briefly.co.za/rmor---history-facts-pics.html Siphiwo Nyawose 222001340
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  • Before guns and modern arms, humans had to defend themselves. During the pre-colonial times, Africans created unique weaponry that was used in wars, ritual celebrations, grazing, hunting, and sometimes as emblems of power and prestige. Among the notable African weapons used are spears, bows, shields, arrows, and swords for some communities.
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The African slave trade. on JSTOR - 2 views

www.jstor.org/...60212037 Thandeka Constance Tshabalala 220124101
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      Thandeka TSHABALALA on 25 Apr 23
       
      The African slave trade was a period of time in which millions of Africans were forcibly taken from their homes and sold into slavery in the Americas, Europe, and other parts of the world. The slave trade was driven by economic, political, and social factors, and was one of the most significant events in human history.
    • Thandeka TSHABALALA
      Thandeka TSHABALALA on 25 Apr 23
       
      It is important to note that the transatlantic slave trade was largely driven by European colonial powers and slave traders, who were responsible for the vast majority of the atrocities committed during the trade. However, it is also true that there were instances of African leaders and traders participating in the slave trade, either by raiding neighboring communities for captives or by selling captives to European traders.
    • Thandeka TSHABALALA
      Thandeka TSHABALALA on 25 Apr 23
       
      These instances, however, were not representative of African societies as a whole, and it is important to understand the historical and cultural context of the time. Many African societies had their own forms of slavery, which were often based on debt or other forms of social status and did not involve the brutal exploitation and violence that characterized
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      Thandeka TSHABALALA on 25 Apr 23
       
      The African slave trade had a profound impact on the social, economic, and political landscape of Africa and the Americas
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      Thandeka TSHABALALA on 25 Apr 23
       
      It is also important to continue to study and understand the legacies of slavery and colonialism, both in Africa and in the Americas, in order to work towards a more just and equitable world.
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      Thandeka TSHABALALA on 25 Apr 23
       
      It contributed to the growth of the global economy, the development of the Americas, and the rise of the European powers that engaged in the trade. At the same time, it also led to the brutal exploitation of millions of human beings and the destruction of African societies and cultures
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    Also not shared properly.
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