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During the 19th-century, Britain conducted an international abolitionist campaign against the Sultanate and restricted and eventually abolished the slavery and slave trade in Zanzibar via a number of treaties between 1822 and 1897, resulting in the end of the slave trade and finally the end of slavery itself in 1909.
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 .
Zanzibar's spices attracted ships from as far away as the United States, which established a consulate in 1837. The United Kingdom's early interest in Zanzibar was motivated by both commerce and the determination to end the Zanzibar slave trade. [12] In 1822, the British signed the first of a series of treaties with Sultan Said to curb this trade.
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]
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 ...
Slavery abolished, but it survives in practice until 1930. [157] Iceland: Vistarband effectively abolished (but not de jure). 1895: Taiwan: Taiwan is annexed by Japan, where slavery has been abolished. 1895: Egypt: Slavery abolished. [158] Italian Somaliland: First slaves freed [159] 1896: Madagascar: Slavery abolished. 1897: Zanzibar
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 ...
The United Kingdom did not grant Zanzibar independence, as such, because the UK never had sovereignty over Zanzibar. Rather, by the Zanzibar Act 1963 of the United Kingdom, [ 28 ] the UK ended the Protectorate and made provision for full self-government in Zanzibar as an independent country within the Commonwealth.