Slaves, spices, & ivory in Zanzibar: integration of an East by Abdul Sheriff

By Abdul Sheriff

The increase of Zanzibar was once in keeping with significant financial alterations: to start with, slaves turned used for the construction of cloves and grain for export, rather than the slaves themselves being exported; secondly there has been an elevated call for for luxuries reminiscent of ivory and Zanzibar took benefit of its strategic place to alternate so far as the good Lakes. but this fiscal luck more and more subordinated Zanzibar to Britain, with its anti-slavery campaign and its keep watch over over the Indian service provider category. North the US: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

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Severe exploitation and oppression of a large number of slaves concentrated near Basra led to a series of slave revolts from the end of the seventh century, and culminated in the famous 'Zanji rebellion' in the ninth century when the rebels controlled southern Iraq for fourteen years (86883). The revolt was suppressed but, by their resistance, the slaves had ensured the failure of one of the few cases of agricultural exploitation based on slave labour in Muslim history. The subsequent economic decline of the Middle East meant that the slave trade did not again attain such massive proportions until the eighteenth century.

During the first century AD, imports included metal tools and weapons, but also wine and wheat 'to gain the goodwill ofthe barbarians'. By the thirteenth century they included beads, Chinese porcelain and cloth, part of which was consumed by the affluent merchant classes in the city-states themselves. Such imports may at times have offered stiff competition to local bead and textile industries. 5 While merchant capital thus helped to expand the production and circulation of commodities, it may also have helped to impart to East African economic structures a certain lopsided character, with overdeveloped commercial, mining and hunting sectors, and a more stunted industrial sector.

096781 subject : Zanzibar--Commerce--History--18th century, Zanzibar--Commerce--History--19th century, Slave-trade--Tanzania--Zanzibar--History, Spice trade--Tanzania--Zanzibar--History, Ivory industry--Tanzania--Zanzibar--History. Page i Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar Page ii Eastern African Studies Abdul Sheriff Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy 17701873 Tabitha Kanogo Squatters & the Roots of Mau Mau19051963 David W.

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