"مُلخّص المراسلات المتعلّقة بشؤون زنزبار من ١٨٥٦ إلى ١٨٧٢." أعدّه النقيب ب. د. هندرسون، الملحق بالإدارة الخارجية" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٠] (١١٤/١٠٠)

Slave Trade-
the Bombay Government strongly urging the absolute withdrawal of the slave
squadron from Zanzibar waters. His arguments were as follows :
" Its presence and its operations are in complete antagonism to the settled policy of
Indian administrators, who desire, if I understand that policy aright, to leave the slave status
untouched in Zanzibar, to strengthen the hands of the Zanzibar ruler, to add to his power
to govern a coast as yet but under a weak control or none, and to await the upgrowth amongst
a well-ordered and thriving population of good influences, which may by-and-by overshadow
slavery with liberty.
a Under existing adverse conditions, the operations of the fleet have been, by common
consent, absolutely futile, and these conditions unaltered and the powers of cruisers further
restricted, its labors must continue to be thankless and barren of good rusult, nay harmful.
" It destroys the prestige of the ruler, who, in his own waters, should, in the eves of
his people, be absolute; and worse than this, as some injustice is inseparable from its working
its acts are a chronic source of irritation, begetting hate amongst a people otherwise disposed to
trust and attach themselves to the English beyond all other nations. "
Next he drew attention to the inconsistency of allowing the importation
of slaves to the Island of Zanzibar while it was prohibited in another direction.
He observed—
" At this moment hnglish capital, distributed by an English agent, is busy in Zanzibar
in setting on foot enterprises wholly dependent ou slave labor; and to obtain this fresh
hundreds of Africans must be enslaved, new villages depopulated, new crimes committed.
" And thus it is that the presence of our anti-slave fleet is an anomaly. They leave
untouched the crowded dhow, and whose slave freight is dest-ned, perchance, for the estates
of a British sugar planter in Zanzibar; we confiscate that dhow without remorse, if found in
another latitude. They blow hot, and we blow cold; we employ our fleet to limit enslava^e *
we employ our capital to encourage it." & '
He concluded—
" On the ground, then, of its inutility on the one hand, its antagonism to the policv of
the Indian administration on the other, to say nothing of the anomaly of its presence I
advocate the entire removal of our slave squadron from Zanzibar waters to a cruisinc e ruund
whereltmay actwUhraJ efficieQcy, andw.thcmt provoking comment on the misapplication
oi -Dntisn capital to the encouragement of slavery in Zanzibar."
Colonel Pelly, whose opinion was asked on the matter, observed
" Judging the question as it stood when I left Zanzibar, I consider that we have no
treaty right to interfere with the Sultans slave trade, carried on within Zanzibar water--
within certain specifild latitudes, and which latitudes are, I believe, that of Cape DcKido on
the south, and that of Lamoo, on the north; and that the only ground that wo have' for
visiting a craft carrying slaves ,n those waters is our suspicion of her intending to carry hZ
slaves to some point exterior to the specified limits." y
* * * *
" Tt is obvious that the Sultan of Zanzibar not having conceded to us any right to interfere
with hi» slave craft within certain limits, and having conceded to us the right to seize his
craft exporting slaves beyond those limits, the rightful stations for our shL would be at
rhir; on b^dw™ 000111 bc no <)uestiwi that ^^
Colonel Pelly concluded—
" The subject alluded to by Dr. Seward, of English capital creating slavery for its own
profit, requires, in my deferential opinion, very careful handling. My own experience leads
reb^h.* U f A t rrica " lab0 [ 0n u an estate^t Zanzibar
or elsewheie, is suscepUble ol anangements under which the employer shall receive fair labor
and the laborer fair remuneration, without any injustice to either party."
The Bombay Government, in acknowledging Dr. Seward's letter, wrote—
"I am at the same time desired to draw your attention to the memorandum by
• Tirfc paragraph 101. Colonel Play fair, dated the 20th September 1863* and the
u i L- ri ' k 4-u i i Conc f S81ons hy the Sultan of Zanzibar, which vou aonear to
have overlooked in both your letters above quoted. y appear to