East African Slave Trade
There are many atrocities in this world that result in the social injustice of certain people. In the case of the East African Slave Trade, those people discriminated against were the women traded along the East African coast. They were traded as domestic servants that served people in the Middle East, East Africa, and West India. The slave trade stretched from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of India. At first the slaves were traded mainly from northern Europe, but as the numbers dwindled from there, they started taking slaves from the east coast of Africa and the Savannah. The slaves traded along this trade route were mainly women that were used not only as domestic servants, but also as sex slaves. Often, …show more content…
Rather than have the owners of the farm work on it, they just bought slaves to keep the land tended to. "The clove plantations on Zanzibar and Pemba set up by Sultan Seyyid Said, needed labour."(BBC, paragraph 5). Eventually, the French ended up building coffee and sugar farms out in Mauritius and Reunion which also needed slaves from the same trade route. The different types of people that dealt with the trading of slaves in different areas included: the Prazeros working on the Zambezi River, the Yao working Northeast of the Zambezi, Makua working East of the Yao (closer to the coast), and Nyamwezi working around Lake Tanganyika. As mentioned before, the British did not agree with the trading of these slaves and worked to abolish this slavery. They set up ships in West Africa stopping any people bringing slaves from Northern Europe. In 1822, the Omani Arabs would sign the Moresby Treaty saying that the selling of slaves to Christians was illegal. Then, in 1873, Sultan Barghash was forced to sign an edict making any sea-borne slave trade illegal under the threat of bombardment of the British Navy. These are all of the factors that ended the East African Slave Trade.
Altogether, this slave trade ended up being memorialized with monuments at where the marketplaces for slaves once were. This was to remember the atrocities committed here and to make sure that they never happened again. This slave trade did provide us with a good example of what we should never do again. However, history is doomed to repeat itself and these kinds of atrocities are all the more likely to occur again in the future when another set of people find it convenient to use slaves. Until then, this is the best example of a discriminatory slave
There are many atrocities in this world that result in the social injustice of certain people. In the case of the East African Slave Trade, those people discriminated against were the women traded along the East African coast. They were traded as domestic servants that served people in the Middle East, East Africa, and West India. The slave trade stretched from the east coast of Africa to the west coast of India. At first the slaves were traded mainly from northern Europe, but as the numbers dwindled from there, they started taking slaves from the east coast of Africa and the Savannah. The slaves traded along this trade route were mainly women that were used not only as domestic servants, but also as sex slaves. Often, …show more content…
Rather than have the owners of the farm work on it, they just bought slaves to keep the land tended to. "The clove plantations on Zanzibar and Pemba set up by Sultan Seyyid Said, needed labour."(BBC, paragraph 5). Eventually, the French ended up building coffee and sugar farms out in Mauritius and Reunion which also needed slaves from the same trade route. The different types of people that dealt with the trading of slaves in different areas included: the Prazeros working on the Zambezi River, the Yao working Northeast of the Zambezi, Makua working East of the Yao (closer to the coast), and Nyamwezi working around Lake Tanganyika. As mentioned before, the British did not agree with the trading of these slaves and worked to abolish this slavery. They set up ships in West Africa stopping any people bringing slaves from Northern Europe. In 1822, the Omani Arabs would sign the Moresby Treaty saying that the selling of slaves to Christians was illegal. Then, in 1873, Sultan Barghash was forced to sign an edict making any sea-borne slave trade illegal under the threat of bombardment of the British Navy. These are all of the factors that ended the East African Slave Trade.
Altogether, this slave trade ended up being memorialized with monuments at where the marketplaces for slaves once were. This was to remember the atrocities committed here and to make sure that they never happened again. This slave trade did provide us with a good example of what we should never do again. However, history is doomed to repeat itself and these kinds of atrocities are all the more likely to occur again in the future when another set of people find it convenient to use slaves. Until then, this is the best example of a discriminatory slave