FIFTY YEARS AGO
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE Slave-trading activities in Africa 60 years ago led to action being taken by some of the Powers to blockade the coast and put an end to the practice.; The following is an extract from the New Zealand Herald of November 28, 18S8: "Tho Sultan is indisposed and the blockade of the coast has been delayed in consequence. Tho British Consul in Zanzibar has discovered 1500 runaway slaves who had taken shelter with thfr English mission in tho Pangani district. Mr. George Mackenzie visited the mission in British interests, paijj the ransoms of runaways and is do« vising measures to provide for the slaves. It is reported that- seven' slavers have been captured off th« coast Turkey has agreed to co-oper< ate with Germany and England ifl blockading tEer. coast." "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23206, 28 November 1938, Page 8
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135FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23206, 28 November 1938, Page 8
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