The global fight against the slave trade

Cooper, Joseph. The Lost Continent; or, Slavery and the Slave-Trade in Africa.

€ 2.500,00

First edition on this global investigation of the African slave trade, including a chapter dedicated to the challenges and successes of the Zanzibar treaties which had recently taken effect along the East African and Arabian Peninsula coastlines.

The volume opens with a large folding map of the African continent, its surrounding seas hand-painted in blue watercolour. Most of the continent itself is shaded in grey, and its caption reads, "The dark shade indicates those parts where Slavery and the Slave-trade more or less prevail. The uncoloured parts where freedom exists." One such place was the Sultanate of Zanzibar, whose experiments in suppressing the slave trade are discussed in Chapter IX.