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    Slavery existed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for at least a thousand years. When...
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    slavery in Zanzibar had already been abolished decades before. But, the massacres are either downplayed or not discussed at all. Arab settlement in Zanzibar...
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    December 1911 he abdicated in favour of his brother-in-law Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid. During his reign slavery in Zanzibar was fully abolished with the...
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    Slavery in Zanzibar was abolished in 1909, when slave concubines were freed, and the open slave market in Morrocco was closed in 1922. Slavery in the...
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    Oman in the Arabian Peninsula, and was one of the major players of the trade alongside the Zanzibar slave trade. Slavery are noted to have existed in the...
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    in Zanzibar to the United Kingdom. This granted the British government more influence in Zanzibar, which they intended to use to eradicate slavery there...
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    and Zanzibar as the sultan of Oman since 1804. The sultans of Zanzibar were of a cadet branch of the Al Said Dynasty of Oman. In 1698, Zanzibar became...
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    Zanzibar City or Mjini District, often simply referred to as Zanzibar (Wilaya ya Zanzibar Mjini or Jiji la Zanzibar in Swahili) is one of two administrative...
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    Legal chattel slavery existed in the area which was later to become Oman from antiquity until the 1970s. Oman was united with Zanzibar from the 1690s until...
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    Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the...
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  • People have lived in Zanzibar for 20,000 years.[citation needed] The earliest written accounts of Zanzibar began when the islands became a base for traders...
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    The Zanzibar Revolution (Swahili: Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar; Arabic: ثورة زنجبار, romanized: Thawrat Zanjibār) began on 12 January 1964 and led to the overthrow...
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    Stone Town (redirect from Zanzibar Town)
    Mkongwe (Swahili for 'old town'), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng'ambo...
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    slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776...
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    that slavery be abolished in Zanzibar and that all the slaves be manumitted except in the case of concubines (manumitted in 1909.). On his death in 1902...
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    The Sultanate of Zanzibar (Swahili: Usultani wa Zanzibar, Arabic: سلطنة زنجبار, romanized: Sulṭanat Zanjībār), also known as the Zanzibar Sultanate, was...
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    Henry Adrian Churchill (category British expatriates in the Ottoman Empire)
    commercial slavery in Zanzibar and helped prevent a war between Zanzibar and Oman. Churchill was born in Adrianople (modern day Edirne) in Turkish Thrace...
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  • Thumbnail for Slavery in Britain
    Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of...
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    Slavery was a practice throughout Al-Andalus and the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal) between the 8th-century and the 15th century....
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    David Livingstone (category Congregationalist missionaries in Africa)
    Teelock, Vijayalakshmi; Peerthum, Satyendra (2017). Transition from Slavery in Zanzibar and Mauritius. CODESRIA. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-2-86978-680-6. Rijpma...
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    were exported from Zanzibar and were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to customers in East Africa and other areas in Northeast Africa...
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  • Baths built. 1890 – British in power per Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. The purchase and selling of slaves is prohibited; slavery itself is preserved. 1896...
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    Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Slavery was nominally abolished in 1910, although the practice continued until at least 1949...
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    Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in...
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    tortoise shells. The Gujaratis participated in the slavery business in Mombasa, Zanzibar and, to some extent, in the Southern African region. Indonesians...
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    slavery in the Indian subcontinent is contested because it depends on the translations of terms such as dasa and dasyu. Greek writer Megasthenes, in his...
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    market of Zanzibar used to be; the construction of the cathedral was in fact intended to celebrate the end of slavery. The altar is said to be in the exact...
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    Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location...
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    movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies...
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  • Thumbnail for Bukhara slave trade
    European saqaliba-slaves from the Vikings in Russia and sold them on to Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate in the Middle East, and as such constituted one...
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