Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean by Hideaki Suzuki

Author:Hideaki Suzuki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

2.All slave transport was completely prohibited between 1 January and 1 May when the Northern Arabs visited East African coast.

Though these measures did not always work well to begin with, the policy became stricter afterwards. 82 According to a dispatch from Mājid to Churchill , the British Consul who succeeded Rigby at Zanzibar , on 10 Muḥarram 1285 ah (3 May 1868), Mājid had sent letters to the shaykhs of the Northern Arabs requesting them to prohibit their subjects from visiting Zanzibar , and he also warned them that he would impound and then burn any of ships which ignored this ban. 83 These actions of Mājid gradually came into effect and such progress was well-recognized by British and American Consuls. 84 Combined with the Royal Navy’s eager campaign targetting East African waters, that action by Mājid certainly prevented the Northern Arabs from regular and formal slave dealings with Zanzibar and even stopped them entering Stone Town. 85 Under such circumstance, Playfair observed a certain transition of Northern Arab’s behavior. He reported in his letter to Bombay on 26th August 1863 that ‘[t]he Gulf Arabs finding it difficult to obtain cargos of slaves by open purchase, have adopted the more economical expedient of kidnapping all on whom they can lay hands’ and ‘majority of the slaves belonged to residents at Zanzibar, and had either been decoyed into their captor’s possession by temptation, or taken by force’. 86

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