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CHAPTER I.
Measures for the suppression of slavery in the Indian Ocean and
Persian Gulf. Statement of all treaties, statutes, etc., on the
subject with their contents up to the year 1873.

One of the cardinal principles of British Administration of their world-wide
Empire on sea and land has always been the abolition of slavery. A clear history
of the genesis and growth of this policy will be found in the article on Slavery
in the Encyclopedia Dritannica. As regards the trade in negro-slaves between
the dominion of Zanzibar, on the East Coast of Africa, and the Arabian and
Persian shores, it would be worth while to read Edward Hutchinson's little work
**The Slave Trade of East Africa ” (1874), which brings up the history of
the measures taken by Great Britain in the suppression of this slave trade to
the beginning of the year 1874. Of the recent publications “ Zanzibar in Con-
temporary Times ” by Robert Nunez Lyne treats the subject exhaustively and
in a very interesting manner in Chapters IV, VI, VIII, IX, X, XIII and XV.
2. Our official correspondence up to the year 1876 is summarised or abstract­
ed in the following publication
Bombay Selections, 1856, No. XXIV.—Paper on Slave Trade by Lieutenant
A. B. Kemball with engagements up to the year 1851, pages 635 et seq.
Precis of Zanzibar Affairs, 1856-72, by Captain Henderson, Chapter VI,
on Slave Trade.
2. -A. There are in the Bombay Records also two interesting reports on Slave
Vol. 107 of x 860. Trade from January i, 1852,10 June 30,
Vol. SS of 1861. 1858, and from July 1, 1858. to June 30,
1859, by Captain Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, which are
printed Appendix to this Precis. The correspondence on the Slave Trade carried
on under the French flag istreated in the brash it Precis, 1892—1905.
Precis of Zanzibar Affairs, 1872-78, by Lieutenant Ramsay, pages 11—341
about Sir Bartle Frere’s mission.
3. These precis and abstracts bring up the history to the close of the
year 1873. We subjoin below a complete statement of the Farmans
or decrees passed and treaties and engagements concluded by the Sultans of
Maskat and Zanzibar, the Maritime Arab Chiefs in the Persian Gulf, the Porte,
the Shah of Persia and the Rao of Kutch, and the British Legislative Enact­
ments passed and orders in Council and proclamations issued, for the purpose
of the more effectual suppression of the slave trade up to that year.
They indicate the several stages of the progress of the measures taken by
the British for attaining their noble object, culminating with the treaties con­
cluded with the Sultans of Maskat and Zanzibar and the assurances obtained
from the Maritim'e Arab Chiefs in 1873 and the Slave Trade Act of 1873,
which have served since then as the main basis of the anti-slave trade operations
and do still serve that purpose, being given only wider international scope by
the Brussels Slave Trade Conference Act of 1890

Treaties, Farmans, enact­
ments, etc. Subject matter. Where printed.

Decree of the Pasha Directing restoration of Natives of India Aitchison’s Treaties,*
of Baghdad, 1812. brought to Basrah as slaves. Volume XI, page 12.
General Treaty with Declaring that carrying of persons from Aitchison’s Treaties,
the Arab Tribes of Africa or elsewhere and transporting Volume X, page
the Persian Gulf, them in vessels to be piracy (Article 9). 127.
1820.

* The edition rifcried to of Aitccison's Treaties is that of 1893.
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