Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Title:: Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

Place of publication:: [London]

Publisher:: [The House of Commons]

Year of publication:: 1871

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V ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). The following is a Return of the number of slaves exported through the Custom-house at Kilvva between 1862 and 1867, distinguishing those sent to Zanzibar from those shipped to other places :— Year. 1862- 63 1863- 64 1864- 65 1865- 66 1866- 67 Zanzibar. 13,000 14,000 13,821 18,344 17,538 Elsewhere. 5.500 3.500 3,000 4,000 4.500 76,703 20,500 20,500 Total Exports from KUwa*!^ in Five years - -j - 97,203 From a despatch of Dr. Kirk, dated 1st February 1870, it appears that 14,944 were exported from Kilwa in the year ending 23rd August 1869. But besides those passed through the Custom-house at Kilwa, numfcrs are exported from other places on the coast. Such IS the extent to which the exportation of slaves takes place from the .^uizibar territory on the East Coast of Africa. It has also been shown that Inhere the slave trade still exists from the Portuguese territory to the Island of Madagascar, and that slaves are still imported into Turkish ports in the Red Sea, General Rigby having recently seen fresh importations even in the civilised port of Suez. It must not, however, be thought that those who are taken captive, great as the numbers are, represent in any degree the total number of the sufferers from this iniquitous traffic. Such is the fearful loss of life resulting from this traffic, such the miseries which attend it, that, according to Dr. Livingstone and others, not one in five, in some cases not one in ten, of the victims of the slave hunters ever reach the coast alive. The slaves when liberated from the dhows have been sent of late years to Aden and Bombay, being maintained there at a heavy cost to the Imperial Exchequer. In time past some have been landed at the Seychelles, a dependency of the Mauritius, Ihe climate in these islands is said to suit them exactly, and the inhabitants to be anxious for emancipated slave labour. Every variety of tropical product grows there in the greatest abundance. Measures have at various times been adopted by the Government of this coimtr\^ to control and check the trade, but hitherto with but partial success- lo control tne trade, treaties have been made with the Sultan of Muscat with Bie iriendiy Arab chiefs on the Arabian coast, and with the Shah of Persia. The treaties with the feultan of Muscat are acknowledged to bo binding upon the Sultan of Zanzibar who has issued orders accordingly, and they prohibit the export of ^aves from Atrica, as well as their import from Africa into Asia, Arabia the Red Sea, or Persian Gulf, but permit the transport of slaves to and fro between Kilwa, Zanzibar, and any coast port up to Larnoo, which is the northern limit of the Sultan ot Zanzibar’s dominions. See Appendix for list of Treaties. lesult of the treaties, as far as the Sultan of Zanzibar is concerned is that not only are the slave traders enabled to rendezvous in great numbers Zanzibar, but the dhows, often so laden that the deck is entirely covered with fn 2' Side by side, and so closely packed that it is impossible for them nrovirW ^ilwa to Zanzibar, and then starting afresh, and ür tEo i ^ proper clearances for Lamoo, are enabled to make the first half ot the journey north unmolested by British cruisers. 420. a g .

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