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last Sultan to maintain a measure of true independence from
European control. He consulted with European "advisors" who had immense influence, but he was still the central figure they wrestled to control. He crossed wits with diplomats from Britain, America, Germany, France and Portugal and was often able to play one country off against another. It was his son,
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British Consul and received simultaneous and contradictory instructions from London, one to issue an ultimatum to the Sultan under threat of blockade that the slave trade must be unequivocally stopped and the slave market closed, and the other not to actually enforce a blockade which might
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into prison. The poor fellow had to languish there for three long years in the dungeon, in heavy iron fetters weighed with chains! And why? No one could say. It may have been feared that Chalîfe, being next in succession to the throne, might plot the same treacherous plans as
Barghash himself had
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Upon becoming sultan his reign became successful and is credited with building much of the infrastructure of Stone Town, including piped water, public baths, a police force, roads, parks, hospitals and large administrative buildings such as the (Bait el-Ajaib) House of
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which was also put under official German protection. Bargash tried to send troops against the Witu ruler who in his view anyhow was supposed to be his subject when the appearance of a German fleet forced him to accept the German intrusion.
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Bargash did not live to see the 1888 agreement come into force which signed off the coastal strip of later
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concubine. He was described as having sharp and charming character. He succeeded his elder half-brother Majid in 1871, having openly and adamantly contested his rule, and at one point was arrested for treason and exiled to India and
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be taken as an act of war pushing
Zanzibar towards French protection. Kirk only showed the first instruction to Barghash, who capitulated within two weeks signing
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It is a well-known fact in
Zanzibar that Barghash, as soon as he had ascended the throne in 1870, suddenly and without any cause cast our second youngest brother
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up to the Tana River and some towns on the Somali coast. This agreement, however, was only short-lived as it cut the German areas of influence off the sea.
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through an imperial letter of protection. Few weeks later in April 1885, the German
Dehnhardt brothers concluded a contract with the Sultan of
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Barghash had to witness the disintegration of his inherited empire. In 1884 the German adventurer
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proclaimed himself sultan but was deposed after rejecting a British ultimatum which led to the 40 minute
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prohibiting slave trade in his kingdom, and immediately closing the great slave market.
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liberated 2000 slaves in the Indian Ocean over many years, mainly near Zanzibar.
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