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The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade
Alastair Hazell
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Description for The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade
Paperback. The extraordinary story of John Kirk, the Scottish botanist who single-handedly ended the East African slave trade. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294.
John Kirk was the only companion of explorer David Livingstone to emerge untainted from the disastrous, tragic expedition up the Zambezi river between 1859 and 1863. Three years later, Kirk returned to Africa, to the notorious island of Zanzibar, ancient post of the slave trade between Africa and the Middle East.
Half a century after the abolition of slavery in Britain, slave traffi cking persisted on Africa's east coast, apparently tolerated and even connived with by parts of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean. Kirk, appointed as medical officer to the British Consulate in Zanzibar, could do nothing.
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Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
286g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780336572
SKU
V9781780336572
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About Alastair Hazell
Alastair Hazell grew up and worked in East Africa. This is his first book. He now lives in London
Reviews for The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade
This is a humdinger of a tale. You might have thought that journeys into the heart of the Dark Continent with David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley and the likes of Richard Burton had already inspired so vast and breathless a literature that there were few surprises left to report. But that's the miracle of this story. Alastair Hazell's genius has ... Read more