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Columbine, HMS 256
Comoro Islands 63–4, 115
Pakenham, Conolly 61–3, 164, 165, 208–9
copal 46, 87, 150, 193, 205c
Cornwall, U.K. 24, 37, 244, 245, 253
Costa Leal, Fernando da 192
cotton 47, 67, 84, 87, 88, 150, 165, 168, 198, 216, 225
Crimean War (see “Russian War”)
Cruz, Antonio (“Bonga”) José da 157, 159, 169, 170
Cuba 14, 32, 185
Daphne, HMS 38–41, 252, 255, 257
Darwin, Charles 24, 244
dates 87, 149, 151, 162
Defence, HMS 28
dhow 48, 55, 69, 70, 73, 79
Dickens, Charles 33, 218
Dillon, Dr. William 158, 171, 172
domestic slavery 150, 222, 235
Dryad, HMS 52, 55, 69
East India Company 31, 161, 237, 251
East Indies Station 37, 43, 47, 216
Emancipation Act of 1833 31, 184, 196
engagés 63, 157, 167–8, 173, 189, 191–2, 196, 198, 242, 257
engineers 57, 58, 122, 134
Fairfax, Admiral Sir Henry 218
Feighly, Henry 60
Ferejd 96, 174
Fitzgerald, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey 84–5
Flushing 244, 245
Foreign Office 149, 153, 184, 185, 186, 201, 217, 218, 221, 222, 226, 230, 241, 250
former slaves 119–20, 142, 196–8, 206
Forte, HMS 130, 225
France 161–2, 172, 218–9
and engagé labour (see “engagé”); and Madagascar 165, 242; relationship with Britain 219; slavery 63, 79, 93, 167, 168
Franklin, Sir John 27
free trade 4, 32–3, 66, 86, 164–5, 185, 219, 236, 250, 255
Frere, Sir Henry Bartle 251, 252–3
Fretter, Ed 207
Gallinas River 15, 16
Gilpin, Charles 237
Gladstone, William 184, 230, 236, 250–1, 252
Gurney, Russell 237
Hay, Sir John 237, 241, 242
head money (see “bounties”)
Heath, Arthur 247–8
Heath, Vice Admiral Sir Leopold 6, 31
career background 18–23, 30, 34–7; family 18; promotion 247; retirement 248; views on race 36, 246
Heroine, HMS 14–7
Hill, George 60, 207
Hodgson, Sub-Lieutenant Tom 128, 143, 144, 200
Hurrex, Tom 158, 171
Hutchinson, James 60
Illustrated London News 232
indentured servitude 63, 156, 167, 196, 197–8
India 55, 71, 197, 225, 251
as eastern capital of the British Empire 149, 150; and ivory trade 87–9, 161, 205, 216–7, 228; and slavery 49, 89–90, 179, 192, 217, 237; Viceroy of (see “Mayo, Viceroy of India, Richard Bourke, Earl of ”)
Indian Ocean 54, 84
currents 131; slave trade 50, 52, 216, 251; commerce 47, 69, 85, 88, 117, 150
Indus, HMS 40
interpreters 165, 168, 201, 215
Ireland 13–4, 55, 94
Islam 116, 123, 172
Ismailia, Egypt 225
ivory 24, 46–7, 48, 66, 68, 87, 88, 150, 155, 156, 165, 193, 205, 217, 225
Johanna Island 63, 64, 115
Johnson, Ben 57
Jumah, interpreter on HMS Pantaloon and Daphne 48–9, 76–9, 103, 118, 159–60, 170, 171–2
Kenya 23, 69
Keonga 107, 165, 187, 200
Kiada 1, 131
kidnapping 49, 67, 103, 118, 132, 191
Kilwa 2, 70, 77, 132
King, Tom 57
Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, Arthur 237, 241, 250
Kipling, Rudyard 149
Kirk, Dr. John 193, 205
and David Livingstone 164; relationship with Heath’s squadron 165, 186, 206; as Vice Admiralty Court judge 187, 193, 202, 228; views on race 203
Kosoko, Oba of Lagos 18, 23
Kroomen 7–9, 20, 42, 44, 45, 57, 76, 137, 140–1, 180, 195, 224, 228, 238, 255
Kroo-Town 8, 42
Kutch (former Princely State in India) 89, 193
Lagos 19–23, 36, 238, 248
Lamu Island 72, 206
Letten, Tom 160
Livingstone, David 5, 32–3, 54, 66–9, 157, 164, 167, 186, 188, 231, 233, 235, 236, 249
Loch, George 118
London 34, 57, 67, 88, 105, 120, 149, 151, 217, 219, 234, 236, 245, 247
London, HMS 253–5, 256, 257
London Missionary Society 32
Lyra, HMS 37, 169
Mabluk 2, 132
Madagascar 5, 24, 32, 36, 79, 96, 120, 175, 179
and imperial France 242; and Christianity (see “Christianity”); political history 61–2
Magnet, HMS 59
Mahé Island 44, 119–20, 142–3
Majan 208
Majunga 92, 96, 173, 176–9, 209–12.
Malagasy 62–3, 79, 92–4, 98, 115, 165, 177, 182, 208–12, 242
Malawi 23
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of 221
Maria Theresa Dollars 125, 202
Marlborough 79, 83, 120
Marsh, John 14–7
Masumamhe 2, 132
Masuk 2, 132
Mauritius 31, 143, 144, 192, 194, 196–9, 208, 209
Mayotta Island 167, 171–2, 196
Mayo, Viceroy of India, Richard Bourke, Earl of 150
Meara, Cdr Edward Spencer 6
career background 14–7, 28, 55; family 13–4; views on race 244
Meara, George 14
Mecca 203
Mediterranean 27, 53, 225
millet 5
Milne, Sir Alexander 225
Mission Life 234
Mitchell, William 57, 128–9, 243
Mohammed, Sultan Hamoud bin 258
Monitor, USS 39–40
monsoon 36, 69–70, 72, 73, 84, 91, 102, 111, 117, 122, 135, 143
Moosa, Saleh bin 113–7, 123–5, 137, 195, 209–12
Moresby Treaty 47
Morjakibo 208
Morning Post 233
mortgages 87, 179
Mortimer, Dr. Edward 64, 66, 81, 101
Mozambique 23, 92, 98, 155–6, 168
Channel 24, 91, 167, 169–73, 191, 210, 242, 255; Island 155, 158–9, 168, 190–2
Mukalla, town in present-day Yemen 117, 124
Muscat; see “Oman, Sultanate of Muscat”
Napier, Sir Robert 34–5
Napoleon III, Emperor 93
Nassau, HMS 255, 257
newspapers 32, 229–30, 249, 251, 252
Niger, HMS 17–23
Nyasa, Lake 1, 2, 132
Nymphe, HMS 13, 42, 55–60
O’Connor, Dr. Daniel 223–4
Octavia, HMS 34, 37, 71, 260
Oman, Sultanate of Muscat and 24, 46, 79, 111, 150–1, 161, 216, 252
Orton, Richard 42–3, 74
Ottoman Empire 203
Otway, Arthur 218
Overland Route 242, 257
Pacific and Orient Lines 52–4, 163, 183
Pall Mall 245
Pall Mall Gazette 231, 235, 251
Palmerston, Henry John Temple Viscount 184
Pantaloon, HMS 48–50, 76, 172
Paulo Marianno 156
Paulo Marianno II (Matekenya) 157, 159, 168
Parliament, U.K. 4, 31, 33, 184, 236–42, 249, 250
pay (of Royal Navy officers and seamen) 81, 104–6, 110, 145, 204
pearls 149, 161
Pemba Island 46–7, 72, 87, 146, 205
Penny Illustrated Paper 231, 234
Perseverance (merchant barque) 209
Persia (historic name for present-day Iran) 32, 161–3
Persian Gulf 5, 24, 37, 54, 67, 71, 72, 84, 90, 117, 149, 151, 161–2, 228, 241
Peters, Charles 132, 248
Phoenix, HMS 27–8, 55
piracy 25, 31, 49, 103, 149, 155, 159, 161, 194, 225
Pitcher, John 113, 116–7
plantation 5, 23, 24, 46, 48, 50, 51, 64, 72, 79, 87, 156–7, 196–7, 199, 221
prices (of the enslaved) 7, 67, 79, 103, 151, 168
Plymouth 37–40
Portsmouth 19, 52–3, 253–4
Port Louis (see “Mauritius”) Portugal 170, 197, 221
colonialism 155–6, 158–9, 161; Portuguese in Mozambique 156–7, 169; and slavery 160, 168, 189–92, 242
Port Victoria, Seychelles 119, 142, 174
prize money 100, 145, 204, 240, 243, 245
Quelimane 159, 190, 192
quinine 25, 109, 209
Rakotovao 177, 180
ram bow 39–40
Ramasy 97, 173, 209–10
Ranavalona II, Queen 62, 92, 177
Ras Madraka 111, 121
Reading Mercury 233
Red Sea 34–5, 36, 37, 44, 52, 84, 117, 131, 225, 226
renagadism 6, 186, 201, 226
Réunion Island 167, 196
rice 1, 47, 79, 80, 98, 179, 180, 195
rigging 41, 192, 200
Rifleman, HMS 254, 257
Rigby, Christopher Palmer 237
Rosekie, Nobie 57
Rothery, Henry 218, 226, 239–40, 260
Rovuma River 106–7
Russell, Sir Edward 85–6, 151, 198
Russian War (Crimean War) 6, 30, 34–6, 59, 219, 237, 244, 253
Said, Sultan Barghash bin 249, 251–2, 255, 257
Said, Sultan Majid bin 45, 48, 50–2, 87–8, 89, 150, 153, 203, 219
Saleh (see “Moosa, Saleh bin”)
San Antonio River 168–9, 170
Sewji, Jairam 87–8, 179
Sabouri (of Mozambique) 208
Sabourri (of Zanzibar) 222–5
Select Committee on the Slave Trade, 1871 236–42, 248, 249
Semaquail 208
Seychelles Islands 44, 119–20, 142–3, 174, 197–8, 206–7
Shaw-Lefevre, George 237
Shearwater, HMS 257
Shilston, John 223–4
ship’s agent 105
Sierra Leone 8, 41, 55
signals and signaling apparatus 28–30, 112–3, 122, 133, 135, 246
Siman 16
Singapore 149
slave market (for Zanzibar’s slave market, see “Zanzibar; slave market”) 3, 70, 77, 117, 191
Slave Trade Department 184–5
smallpox 81, 120
Socotra Island 57
Solyman River 15–6
Somerset Case 221
Spain 7, 25, 218
steam propulsion 39, 49, 59, 246, 253
Suez Canal 44, 188, 225
sugar 5, 23, 36, 64, 83, 93, 155, 167, 172, 196, 199, 242
Sulivan, Captain George.
career background 25–7, 48–9, 64; family 24, 244; promotion 203–4; religion 6, 206; views on race 33, 120
Sulivan, Henrietta 27, 244, 254
Sur, Oman 124–5
Swahili 64, 68, 115, 124, 192, 242
Tamatave 61, 164, 178, 208, 210
Tanzania 23, 69
Thetis, HMS 257
Tippu Tip 68–9, 87, 156
Tozer, William 157, 192
transatlantic slave trade 4, 5, 7, 14, 156, 233
Treasury 34, 105, 106, 184, 185, 186, 217, 218, 226, 236, 239, 243
Trebizond, Ottoman province 203
Trincomalee, Ceylon 162–4
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 251
United Kingdom 7, 23, 61, 165, 186, 249
free trade and the (see “free trade”); government (see “Parliament, U.K.”); opinions about slavery 4, 32–3, 184, 221; relationship with Zanzibar 149, 206, 220, 230, 248, 258
United States 39, 62, 88, 249
Civil War (see “Civil War, U.S.”); slavery 7, 14, 26, 155, 236; Zanzibar and 48, 51, 252
Vice Admiralty Court 105–6, 119, 145, 153, 164, 172, 187, 191, 193, 202, 209, 216, 218, 220, 226
Victoria, Queen 7, 92, 177–8, 248
Vivian, Hussey 218–9
Wales 250
Walker, Henry 113, 210
Waterford, Ireland 13–4
West Africa 7, 17, 19, 41, 243
Preventative Squadron 4, 6, 14, 152, 184; slave trade 184
Westminster 85, 184, 237, 245, 249, 250
Westminster Review 251
Whitehead, William 57 “white slavery” 203
Wilberforce, William 6, 33, 133
Wylde, William 185–6, 218
Zambesi River 190
Zangora 76, 83
Zanzibar 1–2, 24, 50, 69, 70, 82, 84–90, 103, 108–11, 124–5, 145, 153, 194, 201, 220, 230, 237–8, 241, 248, 251, 255, 258
colonial capital 32, 167, 206; entrepôt 46, 151; harbour 48, 72–3, 90, 125–9, 186, 200, 204, 253–4; slave market 23, 36, 45, 49, 67, 93, 188, 203, 205, 252, 256; Sultanate 36, 47, 68, 149–50
Zaro 15–17
John Broich is the author of London: Water and the Making of a Modern British City. He holds a PhD in British History from Stanford University and is a professor of British Empire history at Case Western Reserve University. His writing regularly appears in The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, and Newsweek.
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