Slaves, spices, & ivory in Zanzibar: integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770-1873

628 Pages·1987·4.66 MB·English

by  Abdul Sheriff

Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar :
Integration of an East African Commercial
title:
Empire Into the World Economy, 1770-1873
Eastern African Studies (London, England)
author: Sheriff, Abdul.
publisher: Ohio University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0821408712
print isbn13: 9780821408711
ebook isbn13: 9780585055916
language: English
Zanzibar--Commerce--History--18th
century, Zanzibar--Commerce--History-
-19th century, Slave-trade--Tanzania--
subject Zanzibar--History, Spice trade--Tanzania--
Zanzibar--History, Ivory industry--
Tanzania--Zanzibar--History.
publication date: 1987
lcc: HF3897.S54 1987eb
ddc: 382/.096781
Zanzibar--Commerce--History--18th
century, Zanzibar--Commerce--History-
-19th century, Slave-trade--Tanzania--
subject:
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. Throup
Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau19451953
Bruce Berman & John Lonsdale
Unhappy Valley
Clan, Class & State in Colonial Kenya
Bethwell A. Ogot & Christopher Ehret
A History of Early Eastern Africa*
* forthcoming
Abdul Sheriff, Tanzania Publishing House and James Currey
Publishers acknowledge the help of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of
Development Co-operation in making an edition of this book
available in Tanzania
Page iii
Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar
Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into
the World Economy, 17701873
Abdul Sheriff
Professor of History
University of Dar es Salaam
James Currey
LONDON
Heinemann Kenya
NAIROBI
Tanzania Publishing House
DAR ES SALAAM
Ohio University Press
ATHENS
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James Currey Ltd
54b Thornhill Square
Islington
London N1 1BE, England
Heinemann Kenya
Kijabe Street, PO Box 45314
Nairobi, Kenya
Tanzania Publishing House
Independence Avenue, PO Box 2138
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ohio University Press
Scott Quadrangle
Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
© Abdul Sheriff 1987
First published 1987
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sheriff, Abdul
Slaves, spices and ivory in Zanzibar: integration of an East African
commercial empire into the world economy, 17701873.
(East African studies)
1. Zanzibar Economic conditions To 1964
I. Title II. Series
330.9678'102 HC885.Z7Z3
ISBN 0-85255-014-6
ISBN 0-85255-015-4 Pbk
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sheriff, Abdul
Slaves, spices, and ivory in Zanzibar
Revision of the author's thesis.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. ZanzibarCommerceHistory18th century.
2. ZanzibarCommerceHistory19th century.
3. Slave-tradeTanzaniaZanzibarHistory.
4.Spice tradeTanzaniaZanzibarHistory
5. Ivory industryTanzaniaZanzibarHistory. I. Title.
HF3897.S54 1987 382'.096781 87-12339
ISBN 0-8214-0871-2
ISBN 0-8214-0872-0 (pbk)
Typeset in 10/11pt Baskerville by Colset Private Limited, Singapore
Printed and bound in Great Britain
Page v
To Suhail
Page vii
Contents
Preface ix
Illustrations xiii
Maps, Graphs and Tables xv
Abbreviations xvii
Glossary xviii
Currency and Weights xix
Introduction: The Commercial Empire 1
One 8
The Rise of a Compradorial State
The mercantile civilisation of the Swahili coast 12
Portuguese intervention 15
The transformation of Oman 18
The subjugation of the Swahili coast 24
Conclusion 30
Two 33
The Transformation of the Slave Sector
The northern slave trade 35
The French slave trade and the re-subjugation of 41
Kilwa,17701822
The genesis of the slave system of production in 48
Zanzibar,18101840s
The development of the slave system on the northern 61
coast
Three 77
Commercial Expansion and the Rise of the Merchant
Class
The ivory trade to the end of the eighteenth century 78