â€å“this Union Can Exist Forever Divided Into Free and Slave States as Our Fathers Made It.ã¢â‚¬â

EDWARD ALPERS University o/California Los Angeles The French Slave Trade in East Africa 1721-1810)* The historian who wishes to come up to an understanding of the East African slave merchandise volition soon exist struck by the paucity of reliable detailed studies bearing on the subject Indeed at that place is scarcely any aspect of the trade which has received adequate scholarly attention In the existing literature the only studies which begin to satisfy are those dealing with the Sultanate of Zanzibar although on the African side the futurity promises more substantial considerations of the outcome of the slave merchandise on various East African societies.ane All attempts at synthesis then including my own recent try must be read with this caveat firmly in mind.2 This state of affairs contrasts sharply with that for W Africa and the Atlantic slave trade where recent revival of interest among historians has already produced number of impor tant new quantitative and interpretative studies focusing on the basic questions of how and why the trade was generated and sustained and

An earlier version of this paper was presented in February 1969 to the research seminar in African History at the University of California Los Angeles am grateful to Professor Robert Griffeth and the members of the seminar for their comments on that typhoon The greater part of the material in this essay was originally included in my doctoral dissertation The role of the Yao in the development of trade in Due east-Primal Africa 1698-0.1850 University of London 1966) and the research was partly financed by travel grant from the Central Research Fund of that institution Meet due east.g. Reginald COUPLAND E Africa and its Invaders from the Earliest Times to the Decease of Seyyid Said in iSyo Oxford 1938 and The Exploi tation of E Africa )half-dozen-i8()0 London 1939 John GRAY History of Zanzibar from the Centre Ages to 1856 London 1962 However neither histo rian deals extensively with the crucially of import Banian trading community at Zanzibar For two contrasting examples of the impact of the slave trade on Eastward African societies see Edward ALPERS Trade Land and Guild among the Yao in the Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History hereafter JAH) 1969 pp 405-420 and Isaria KIMAMBO Political History of the Pare of North-Eastern Tanzania oo-fifty oo Nairobi 1969 ALPERS The East African Slave Trade Nairobi 1967 Historical Association of Tanzania Newspaper No three)

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