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The Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar and the Clove Empire
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Indian Ocean slave trade through the lens of Zanzibar's clove plantation economy. They discuss how Sultan Said bin Sultan moved his capital to Zanzibar in the 1840s to cultivate cloves, creating a vast demand for enslaved labor from East Africa. The episode covers the role of Tippu Tip, a notorious slave trader who sourced captives from the Congo Basin, and the impact of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890, which ceded Zanzibar to Britain and led to the formal abolition of slavery there. The conversation also touches on the cruel conditions…
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