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>>I am always surprised at how little mention is made of >>the Eastern African slave trade - with its own trade >>triangle from Zanzibar to the Gulf to the Indian >>sub-continent. Now that slave triangle was in business >>far longer and virtually emptied the entire Eastern >>coast of Africa - slavers had to travel further and >>further inland in pursuit of Africans to take to the >>Gulf states. This trade went on far longer than the >>West African trade and actually transported more >>slaves! In fact it is still going on there! > >Yes. Some of the Royal Navy's more 'exciting' >encounters with slavers happened in the Indian Ocean >and the Gulf in the 1880s - long after the Gold Coast >trade had been eliminated.
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