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It was almost as if the Portuguese had never been here. The old trade patterns were re-established and city |
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| states rebuilt. Over the centuries the Busaid dynasty came to take control in Zanzibar and gradually they | ||
| managed to increase the importance of Zanzibar as a trading entrepot until it became the dominant state in | ||
| the region. The arrival on the scene of the great Busaid Sultan Said around 1800 that really ushered in | ||
| the boom years for Zanzibar. Up until then, the island had been considered as an overseas | ||
| possession of the Sultans of Oman, but Said saw the potential and over the first ten years | ||
| of his reign worked intensively at increasing trade in Zanzibar. | ||
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Said pushed slave caravans deeper into the mainland than ever before, inviting Indian financiers to Zanzibar in order to fund the operations and creating a mainland empire that covered the majority of Southern Africa. In a great vision he ordered all the landowners in to plant clove trees, two for every palm tree they owned or their land would be confiscated, thus developing a hugely lucrative trade that became responsible for three quarters of world production. A Princess below- Princess Salma. |
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Slave Caravan above. Then in 1811, at a time when the world was turning against the trade, he opened the Great Slave Market in Zanzibar. Slaves being sold below. |
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| In 1840 he made his biggest play by relocating his capital from Oman to Zanzibar and for the next 16 years until his death Zanzibar boomed. After his death, however, things started to go wrong for the Busaid family. | ||
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The British, who were by now extremely influentual, wanted the slave market closed. Allin allpower started to slowly sap from the hands of the Sultan and the British were forced to impose a Protectorate, not least to ensure the island didn't fall into the hands of other European powers. |
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