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'The Slave Trade of East Africa.' [‎31] (40/108)

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Dr, Livingstone (in the report dated 11th June, 1866 ? received
on the 18th April, 1868) gives the following description of the
slave mart:— u This is now almost the only spot in the world
where 100 to 300 slaves are daily exposed for sale in open
market. This disgraceful scene I several times personally
witnessed, and the purchasers were Arabs or Persians, whose
dhows lay anchored in the harbour, and these men were
daily at their occupation examining the teeth, gait, and limbs
of the slaves, as openly as horse dealers engage in their
business in England."
The thought may here occur to many of our readers,
possibly unfamiliar with the subject, u This may all be true,
but is it not a small insignificant trade you are describing—an
annual caravan of perhaps 300 or 400 slaves?" A few words
on the present extent and results of the trade will, we regret
to say, reveal a very different state of things. We have stated
that Quiloa, or Kilwa, is the principal mainland export
harbour, and that here proper clearances are furnished to the
slavers. In a letter dated Zanzibar, 4th March, 1868, Consul
Churchill states that for the five years terminating September,
1867, there had been exported from Quiloa 97,253 registered
slaves. He states also, that from 3,000 to 4,000 annually are
smuggled from various parts of the mainland; so that we may
swell the above total to about 115,000 slaves, in five years,
who have reached the coast, and have been shipped for
Zanzibar, Arabia, and other places. Nor is this enormous
total the measure of the misery and sin which accompanies
the trade. Let us again recur to the statement of the Indian
Sepoy Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. . He says, " When we passed up with Dr. Livingstone,
the way side stunk with corpses ; it was so when we passed
down again and out of the 300 slaves who started on that
fearful march, 100 were left murdered on the bloody track.
Dr. Livingstone, in Chap. xix. of the u Zambezi and its Tribu
taries," says :—
" Would that we could give a comprehensive account of the horrors
of the Slave-trade, with an approximation to the number of lives it
yearly destroys ; for we feel sure that, were even half the truth told
and recognised, the feelings of men would be so thoroughly roused.

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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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1 volume (96 pages)
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