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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
Introduction: The Commercial Empire
One: The Rise of a Compradorial State
The mercantile civilisation of the Swahili coast
The subjugation of the Swahili coast
Two: The Transformation of the Slave Sector
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
The subordination of the Indian merchant class
The dismemberment of the Omani kingdom
The nationalist reaction:
