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Excerpt from How We Countenance Slavery How we countenance Slavery. The fact suggested in this title is that Slavery is now countenanced by British rule. We boast as a nation that Britons never will be Slaves, and we pride ourselves that we have also emancipated every Slave in our own Colonies. The following pages will show how little we are really entitled to thus take credit to ourselves, and it is believed that the facts recorded below, will come as a surprise to many. The statements, and articles also, which have appeared in the press in connection with the Slavery debate in the House of Commons, raised on the Supplementary Estimates on March 8th, 1895, indicate a general ignorance of the exact position and situation in our East African British Protectorates which is probably shared by the public, and is likely to mislead. In 1861, through the arbitration of Lord Canning, Zanzibar was created an Independent State, and the first Sultan, majid, was appointed. The influence of Great Britain thereafter became pre dominant throughout the Sultan's dominions. In 1890, by agreement with the ruler of Zanzibar, and under the same arrangement by which Heligoland was ceded to Germany, the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba came under the direct control of Her Majesty's Government. Our successive Governments have, however, since then not taken any steps until quite recently to make themselves acquainted with either the extent of Slavery or the condition of the Slaves in the two Islands, and even at the present moment very little is really known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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