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

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Year of publication:: 1871

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BOM CHU 215 Report, 1870—continued. Bombay Government-^ conúnu^á. report by Bris^adier Coghlan ; conclusion as to the necessity of energetic action by the Imperial Government for the suppression of the Bast African slave tiade, App, 124» Bounties. See Cruisers, 4. British and Brilish-Indian Subjects {Zanzibar). Number of Brilish-Indian and of British subjects in Zanzibar ; considerable trade likely to arise, Hon. C. Vivian 13. 16 ~ Intended prohibition upon the holding of slaves by British-Indians in Zanzibar, ih. 98 Total of about 4,000 British subjects and British protected subjects in Zanzibar, Churchill 289, 290 Explanation as to the holding of slaves by the British protected subjects, or Kutchees, and as to the authority under which they hold them, ib. 295*^97* 408—4 ^ t)« Satisfactory results consequent upon the emancipation by witness of about 6,000 slaves held by British-lndian subjects in Zanzibar, Rigby 587, 588. 599, 600. 617, 618. 636- 652 Injurious effect of British-lndian subjects being now allowed to hold slaves by changing their allegiance to this country, ib. 636—644* 664* Statement as to some English subjects in Zanzibar having held a good many slaves, SzV. Z. G. Heath 787-789 Comment upon the employment of slaves m Zanzibar by Captain Frazer, and upon their employment by other Englishmen in Zanzibai and the Comoro Islands, Waller 963. 965“96^* 97^ —Necessity of amendment as regards the status of British protected subjects in Zanzibar, and their light to hold slaves, ib. 976, 977. Draft Report, dated Foreign Office, April 1870, relative to the right of jurisdiction of the British Government over^certain natives of Kutch, resident in India, -4/»/?. 95-97- Conclusion that it is not necessary to the exercise of such jurisdiction that British subjects should have enrolled themselves on the British consular register, ib. 96 Consideration by the Foreign Office of the question whether there is any distinction to be drawn in respect of Brhish jurisdiction between British born subjects and natives of Indian States under the protection of the British Government, such as Kutch, ib. 96, 97. Provision in the proposed new treaty with Zanzibar, that the natives of Indian States under British protection shall, after a certain date, be forbidden to possess, and that in the meantime they shall be prevented from acquiring any fresh slaves. Rep. vi. C. Captured Slavers. See Condemnation of Slave Dhows. Cruisers. Children. Care taken of the liberated children, by placing them in schools at Bombay and at the Seychelles, Hon C. Vivian 72. 82-84 Approval of the disposal of the children in the Seychelles, Rothery 804 Large proportion of children, from seven years of age upwards, amongst the natives taken away as slaves, Waller 9^9) 93® -Satisfactory result of the measures taken for the education of liberated slave children in Zanzibar, Steere 1002-1006 Average of about one in six of the slaves landed in Zanzibar as the proportion of children, ib. 1045-1047. Evidence in support of an establishment at the Seychelles for liberated children, under charge of the Church Missionary Society, Hutchinson I337"i35t Insufficient protec tion of liberated children in Zanzibar, ib. ] 339. 1347* Reference to the willingness of the Church Missionary Society to undettake the eharge and education of the children at the Seychelles, Rep. ix. Church Missionary Society. Facilities by means of the Church Missionary Society, and similar societies, for disposing of many of the liberated slaves. Sir B. Frere 452. 457. 518, 519 Evidence as to the views of the Church Missionary Society in favour of an establishment at the Seychelles for liberated children, Hutchinson 1337-135’* Churchill, Henry Adrian, c.b.—(Analysis of his Evidence).—Has been nearly three years at Zanzibar as political agent and consul, 285, 286 Desolate stale of the country between Lake Nyassa and the coast, owing to the ravages caused by the slave trade: cruel treatment of the slaves on the route to the coast, the mortality being excessive, 287, 288 Good care taken of the slaves in Zanzibar, their masters generally treating them with kindness, 288. 297. 325-332 Close packing and inadequate feeding during the voyage from the coast of Africa, 288. 310, 311. 327. Total of about 4,000 British subjects and British protected subjects in Zanzibar, 289, 290 Outline of witness’s duties as political agent and as consul ; very heavy work arising out of the slave trade, and the proceedings in the Vice Admiralty Court, 291-294 ——Very limited staff of the consulate with reference to the work to be done, 294 Explanation as to the holding of slaves by the British protected subjects, or Kutchees, 295-297 Increased activity of the slave trade on the east coast, according to recent accounis, 298 ladependeni attitude assumed by Syed Burgash, the present Sultan of Zanzibar, as to the slave trade, 298. 315 Stringent measures desirable in order to force the Sultan to come to terms ; proposed curtailment of his income from the slave 420. E E 3 tax.

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