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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa - Narrative of Five Years' Experiences in the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Paperback)
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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa - Narrative of Five Years' Experiences in the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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A chronicle of the difficulties and successes of trying to police
the slave trading routes on the eastern Indian Ocean. Captain
George Sullivan writes of his experiences and frustrations in
trying to enforce British anti-slave-trade laws among the Arab and
African kingdoms of the east coast of Africa and the islands of
Zanzibar, Pemba and Madagascar in 1849. Battling with scorching
heat, rough seas, tropical diseases, hostility from the native
slavers, and language barriers, the naval ships continue the
struggle for abolition. While rescuing a significant number of
slaves from transport dhows, the captain chronicles their stories:
their tribes, how they were sold into slavery, and the best
location to rehabilitate them to avoid re-capture. A fascinating
record, published in 1873, of the struggle to enforce the complex
abolition laws far from central government, with dubious documents
and deceptions encountered from local Arab and Portuguese slavers.
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