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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[ 1 MmUTES OF EVIDENCE- Monday, \Oth July 1871. MEMBERS PRESENT : Sir Robert Anstruther. Lord Frederick Cavendish. Vicount Enfield. Mr. Cruin-Ewin^. Mr. Gilj)in. Sir John Hay. Mr. Kenn away. Mr. Kinnaird. Mr. O’Conor. Sir Frederick Williams. CHARLES GILPIN, Esq., in the Chair. The Honourable Crespigny Vivian, called in; and Examined. C/¿atrma?h] I believe you have been for a considerable time connected with the Foreign Office ?—For 19 years. fb connected with that department ol ^ ^ oreign Office which takes cognisance oi atters in connection with the slave trade?— cSj I am senior clerk in charge of the slave Hade department. have seen the terms of reference to ^ Committee ?—1 have. nil 4*1 state of affairs at Zanzibar and +1. m ^ Coast of Africa, with respect to the a C m slaves at the present time as far as you know ?—SWery in the first place is legal in Zanzibar. The sovereign of Zanzibar is an Arab, and his subjects are Arabs, and as such they consider there is no harm in slavery at all. By however, the export of slaves n Zanzibar to foreign countries, and also from anzibar to the dominions of the Imaum of Muscat tn t 4^^' prohibited, but slaves are still allowed J)lbe tramg)ort(xl ifom the coast to the islands f . certain limits, for domestic puiioses ; in ^ ’ w/ consider that as slave trade, re^npct m ^ existing laws of Zanzibar with ThLe nro* the transport of slaves ?— memm 3i's:sE.?s Zanzibar affecting the slave trade ?—There have been several treaties; the first was in 1820 with the friendly Arab tribes on the Persian Gulf. By that treaty 'Gt is provided that the carryino- off of slaves, men, women, and children, from *^the coasts of Africa, or elsewhere, and the transport ing them in vessels, is plunder and piracy, and the friendly Arabs shall do nothing of this nature.” That was the first treaty. There was then a treaty with the Imaum of Muscat (Muscat and Zanzibar being then under one sovereign) in 1822, and a further one in 1839, but it is hardly worth while referring to them, because they were niuchstronger treaty in October 1845, which IS the treaty to which we now appeal, lhat was signed by Captain Hamerton, who was our agent at Muscat, and Syud Saeed, who was Sultan^ of Muscat and Zanzibar. By that treaty the Sultan engaged to prohibit for himself. Ins heirs, and successors under the severest penaL ties, the export of slaves from his African domi- nions, and for the first time renounced for ever the right of importing slaves from any part of Aiiica into his possessions in Asia, into Arabia, the Red Sea, and Persian Gulf, and engaged to i^e his influence with the chiefs there to prevent t e introduction of slaves into their respective teiiitories. Up to that time, he had always main tained the right to carry on the traffic between his dominions in Arabia and his dominions in Africa but for the firat time in this treaty he renounced that light. He gave permission to his Maiesty’s CTuisers, as well as to those of the East India Company, to seize and confiscate his vessels car rying on the slave trade wherever found, except ing those engaged in transporting slaves from one poit to another of his African dominions, between the limits of Lanioo to the north and Kilwa to ^ the Hon. C* Vivian. 10 July 1871.

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