The Last Slave Market by Alastair Hazell

Author:Alastair Hazell [Alastair Hazell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849018142
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

At Zanzibar the slaves generally change hands. There is a considerable exchange of refractory or idle island slaves for more docile importations, and much money is earned by residents who make it a business, as it were, to break in fresh arrivals, or to feed up cheap slaves and make them more marketable.

BARTLE FRERE IN HIS REPORT TO LONDON

9: THE GATHERERS OF WEALTH

Ivory is like grass – this is great news for Suahili …

LIVINGSTONE TO KIRK, 14 MAY 1871

On 14 September 1867, Zanzibari trader Hamees Wodim Tagh waited impatiently in his camp for the peace offering he had been promised following the recent battle. After months of stalling, skirmishing and negotiation, he and his allies had attained a significant victory. They had finally defeated Nsama, the most important ruler in the region to the south west of Lake Tanganyika. Now there was little to stop them moving deep into the forests of Katanga, and opening up valuable new sources of ivory. A European travelling with Hamees wrote:

The entire population of the country has received a shock from the conquest … and their views of the comparitive values of bows and arrows and guns have undergone a great change. Nsama was the Napoleon of these countries; no one could stand before him; hence the defeat … has caused a great panic.

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