Slavery became a mainstay of Zanzibar's economy. Plantation owners growing cloves and coconuts depended on slave labour. Slaves served as domestic servants, soldiers, caravan porters and concubines. Life for some was short and brutal.
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slavery was abolished in Zanzibar and Pemba. When the land cultivated by a slave for his own use was not. "plantation" land, it was usually of very poor ...