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  2. Slavery in Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    The slave owners on Zanzibar attempted, often successfully, to prevent their slaves from being aware of the abolition of slavery, and ship them abroad to sell them in Muscat, Jeddah and Mecca; in April 1898, the British stopped an Arab boat in which a rich Arab male passenger had brought with him 36 male and female servants to sell in Arabia ...

  3. Frere Treaty - Wikipedia

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    Anti slavery policy, which had been a part of British foreign policy since they abolished their own slave trade in 1807. The Bartle Frere Mission addressed the issue of the Zanzibar slave trade between the Swahili coast in Zanzibar and Oman in the Arabian Peninsula, which was at the time the major part of the ancient Indian Ocean slave trade .

  4. Zanzibar independence movement - Wikipedia

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    Control of Zanzibar eventually came into the hands of the British Empire; part of the political impetus for this was the 19th century movement for the abolition of the slave trade. Zanzibar was the centre of the Arab slave trade, and in 1822, the British consul in Muscat put pressure on Sultan Said to end the slave trade. Said came under ...

  5. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Gradual abolition of slavery begins. British America: After being settled into by Quakers, Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick becomes the first settlement in British North America to ban slavery, forbidding slave masters from entering. [79] 1784: Connecticut: Gradual abolition of slavery, freeing future children of slaves, and later all slaves. [80 ...

  6. History of slavery in the Muslim world - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Zanzibar was abolished in 1909, when slave concubines were freed, and the open slave market in Morocco was closed in 1922. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was abolished in 1924 when the new Turkish Constitution disbanded the Imperial Harem and made the last concubines and eunuchs free citizens of the newly proclaimed republic. [12]

  7. What Made America's Founders Perpetuate Slavery - AOL

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    Years later James Madison, tacitly acknowledging that the American Union was a shotgun wedding, explained why the framers did not immediately abolish the slave trade in the U.S. Constitution. If ...

  8. Hulu's 'The 1619 Project' examines the impact of slavery on ...

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    In early 2019, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones made a simple pitch to her editors. The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of ...

  9. When did Kentucky actually abolish slavery? A lot later than ...

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    Dec. 6, 1865: National ratification of 13th Amendment, which ends slavery in the United States. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the existing 36 states. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the ...