Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar. Abdul Sheriff

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      © Abdul Sheriff 1987

      First published 1987

      Reprinted 1990

       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, 1770–1873.

       (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

      ISBN 978-0-8214-0872-8

       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. Zanzibar Commerce History 18th century.

      2. Zanzibar Commerce History 19th century.

      3. Slave-trade Tanzania Zanzibar History.

      4. Spice trade Tanzania Zanzibar History. 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

      ISBN 978-1-78204-777-3 (James Currey ePub eISBN)

      ISBN 978-1-78204-978-4 (James Currey ePDF eISBN)

      ISBN 978-0-8214-4021-6 (Ohio University Press eISBN)

       To Suhail

       Contents

       Preface

       Illustrations

       Maps, Graphs and Tables

       Abbreviations

       Glossary

       Currency and Weights

       Introduction: The Commercial Empire

       One: The Rise of a Compradorial State

       The mercantile civilisation of the Swahili coast

       Portuguese intervention

       The transformation of Oman

       The subjugation of the Swahili coast

       Conclusion

       Two: The Transformation of the Slave Sector

       The northern slave trade

       The French slave trade and the re-subjugation of Kilwa, 1770-1822

       The genesis of the slave system of production in Zanzibar, 1810-1840s

       The development of the slave system on the northern coast

       Three: Commercial Expansion and the Rise of the Merchant Class

       The ivory trade to the end of the eighteenth century

       The genesis of the Indian mercantile class

       The expansion of foreign trade

       The dynamo of merchant accumulation

       Conclusion

       Four: The Structure of the Commercial Empire

       The entrepôt

       Economic dependence

       The capital: planter town or commercial centre?

       Five: The Hinterland of Zanzibar

       The southern hinterland

       The northern hinterland

       The core of the commercial empire

       The moving frontier

       Where the flag did not follow trade

       Six: The Empire Undermined

       The subordination of the Indian merchant class

       The dismemberment of the Omani kingdom

       The nationalist reaction: СКАЧАТЬ