Plate 33 Slaves captured by H.M.S. London, 1870s
Plate 34 Zanzibar town and harbour after the hurricane, 1872
Acknowledgements for illustrations
Plates 1, 3 and 6 from R.F. Burton, Zanzibar: City, Island Coast (2 vols, 1872); Plates 2, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 23, 31 and 33 from The Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Plates 4, 5, 12, 19, 22 and frontispiece from Carl von der Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrika (1869); Plate 7 from Abdul Sheriff; Plate 8 from H.H. Johnson, The Kilima-Njaro Expedition (1886); Plate 10 from The London Illustrated News, 18th June 1842; Plates 15 and 16 from V. Giraud, Les Lacs de l’Afrique Equatoriale (1890); Plate 18 from ‘The Stone Town of Zanzibar: A Strategy for Integrated Development’, a technical report commissioned by the UN Centre for Human Settlement, 1983; Plate 21 from J. R. Browne, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar (1846); Plates 24, 25 and 26 from Baur and Le Roy, A Travers le Zanguebar (1886); Plate 27 from R.F. Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa (2 vols, 1860); Plate 28 from H.M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone (1872); Plate 29 from M.G. Alexis, Stanley L’Africain (1890); Plate 30 from H.M. Stanley In Darkest Africa (1890); Plate 32 from P. H. Colomb, Slave Catching in the Indian Ocean (1873); Plate 34 from Harper’s Weekly, 5th July 1873.
Maps, Graphs and Tables
MAPS
2.1 The East African slave trade
4.1 Zanzibar: the entrepot, 1846 and 1895
4.2a Differential taxation and the centralisation of trade, 1848
4.2b Differential taxation and the centralisation of trade, 1872–3
5.1 The hinterland of Zanzibar, c. 1873
6.1 The East African slave trade, 1860s
GRAPHS
2.1 Cloves and slaves: production and prices
3.1 Prices of ivory and merekani, 1802/3–1873/4
3.2 Ivory imports into the United Kingdom, 1792–1875
TABLES
2.1 The northern slave trade, 1831 and 1841
2.2 Imports and exports of grains and cereals from Zanzibar, 1859/60–1866/7
2.3 Cloves: production, export and prices, 1830–79
2.4 Value of cloves from Unguja and Pemba, 1859/60–1864/5
2.5 Emancipation of slaves held by Indians, 1860–1
2.6 Prices of slaves at Zanzibar, 1770–1874
3.1 The ivory trade of Mozambique, 1754–1817
3.2 The value of Waters’s contracts with merchants at Zanzibar
4.1 Value of cloves and coconuts in the total exports of Zanzibar, 1859–1864/5
4.2 Value of ivory and copal in the total exports of Zanzibar, 1859–1864/5
4.3 Import duties as a proportion of total revenue, 1859–1864/5
4.4 Internal trade of Zanzibar by commodities, 1859–1864/5
4.5 External trade of Zanzibar by commodities, 1859–1864/5
4.6 External trade of Zanzibar by countries, 1859–1864/5
4.7 The population of Zanzibar town, 1835–1910
4.8 The Indian population of Zanzibar, 1819–74
5.1 Imports into Zanzibar from the African coast, 1848–1873/4
5.2 Exports of ivory from Mombasa, 1849–87
5.3 Mombasa’s foreign trade, 1872
6.1 Slave captures, 1868–70
6.2 The East African slave trade, 1811–73
6.3 Redistribution of slaves in East Africa, 1866/7–1872/3
6.4 The East African slave trade in the 1860s: summary
Abbreviations
| Adm. | Admiralty Records at Public Record Office, Kew |
| ANSOM | Archives Nationales, Section Outre-Mer, Paris |
| BHS | Beverley Historical Society,. Beverley, Massachusetts |
| BM, Add. Mss | Additional Manuscripts, at British Museum, London |
| BR | Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, New Series |
| CCZ | Correspondance Consulaire et Commerciale: Zanzibar, at Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Archives, Paris |
| Cust. | Customs Records, at Public Record Office, Kew |
| EI | Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts |
| FO | Foreign Office Records, at Public Record Office, Kew |
| FOCP | Foreign Office Confidential Print, at Public Record Office, Kew |
| HSBA | Harvard School of Business Administration, Baker Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| IOR | India Office Records, London |
| LC | Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
| MA | Maharashtra State Archives, Bombay |
| MAE | Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Archives, Paris |
| NAI | National Archives of India, New Delhi |
| NAW | National Archives, Washington, DC |
| OI | Océan Indien series, at Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Archives, Paris |
| PM | Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts |
| PP | Parliamentary Papers, United Kingdom |