'The Slave Trade of East Africa.' [18] (27/108)
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The opening words of this report are very valuable, as
showing the opinion entertained by Livingstone of the bene
fits derived by Western Africa from the policy of England in
the suppression of the slave trade there.
Beport on the East African Slav
Lat. 11° 18' S., Long. 37° 10' 11, 1866.
" I devoted part of the time of my detention at the Island of
Zanzibar to a careful and earnest study of our political relations
with the Sultan, and to a minute investigation of the causes which
have prevented those parts of Eastern Africa, subject to Arab
influences, from reaping the same advantages, by the policy of Her
Majesty's Government against the Slave Trade, which have been
realized in large portions of Western Africa, inhabited by less
promising races of people.
" The reasons assigned for the continuance of this very unsatis
factory
An East India Company trading post.
state of affairs derive their, force and speciousness partly from
political considerations, and partly from forebodings of the evils
involved in change, though that change might be for the better.
A bright hope, too, that by the slow and steady influence of trade
and imported civilization, the Arabs may be led to change their wavs
gilds the whole subject. '
"Among the political considerations are specified that these
JS ortbern Arab slave traders are lawless pirates, whom the Sultan
however willing, cannot coerce. His power in the Island of Zanzibar
is veiy limited, and on the coast line of the adjacent continent he
possesses but a mere shadow of power. In fact, to the Arabs he
represents that leader only who first guided them down the East
coast for conquest. They acknowledge him as their Chief (Sved)
but not their Sultan; and since the present occupant of the Chief
tainship has been separated from those possessions in Asia, whence
his father, the old Imaum of Muscat, drew all his military power
Syed Majid, the son, can muster no force to control either the
Zanzibar or the Northern Arab slave traders. His utter powerlessness
to withstand the slaving propensities of the pirates and kidnappers
who annually infest his island and seas, has been thus foreiblv though
hypotbetically expressed. Should the Sultan attempt the abolition
ot the Slave trade in his dominions, so intimately linked is that traffic
with the whole system of slavery in which he is placed, the pro
clamation wonld ensure a revolution, his own expulsion or even
death. ;
" In judging of the weight due to these and similar assertions,
it must never be left oat of view for a moment that Sved Maiid
is the creature of English power alone He resembles
one of the Indian protected princes, but destitute of any organized
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The Slave Trade of East Africa.
Author: Edward Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., F.S.A. (Lay Secretary, Church Missionary Society).
Publication details: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, E.C.
Physical Description: 1 map; octavo.
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