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Map: Lewis C. Gray History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860 (Washington, D.C., 1933). 652-55 Interactive map Slave population in the United States (click on the years button to see what it was by year http://oieahc.wm.edu/wmq/Oct09/deyle.html 1790: 697,624 1820: 1,538,022 1840: 2,487,355 1860 3,953,760 M. A. Shaban on the Zanj revolt. The quoted part is page 102 but he starts on page 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA101 "If more proof is needed that it was not a slave revolt, it is to be found in the fact that it had a highly organized army and navy which vigorously resisted the whole weight of the central government for almost fifteen years. Moreover, it must have had huge resources that allowed it to build no less than six impregnable towns in which there were arsenals for the manufacture of weapons and battleships. These towns also had in their mammoth markets prodigious wealth which was more than the salt marshes could conceivably produce. Even all the booty from Basra and the whole region could not account for such enormous wealth. Significantly the revolt had the backing of a certain group of merchants who preserved with their support until the very end. Tabari makes it very clear that the strength of the rebels was dependent on the support of these merchants. " FRERE'S CRUSADE: http://books.google.com/books?id=YAIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA207&dq= =onepage&q=&f=false "But the British Government can easily make the Bombay authorities execute the laws against the slave-traders, whose headquarters are in their dominions. If the Banians, who are subjects of the queen, find that they will be punished for felony for direct or indirect participation in this traffic, they will use their capital in some less dangerous business. As the Arabs have not the wealth to carry on the slave trade to any extent, the British cruisers will be able to put a stop to it, even if they are not aided by the native rulers whose subjects are concerned in it. The Shah of Persia, however, has already expressed his intention to cooperate with Great Britain in this matter, and has issued two firmans peremptorily forbidding the importation of negroes by sea into his dominions" From Livingston http://books.google.com/books?id=m-8MAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA556&dq= =onepage&q=&f=false "It is well known that the slave trade in this country is carried on almost entirely with his money and that of other Banian British subjects. The Banians advance the goods required, and the Arabs proceed inland as their agents, perform the trading, or rather murdering, and when slaves and ivory are brought to the coast the Arabs sell the slaves. The Banians pocket the price, and adroitly let the odium rest on their agents. As a rule no traveling Arab has money sufficient to undertake an inland journey. Those who have become rich imitate the Banians, and send their indigent countrymen and slaves to trade for them. The Banians could scarcely carry on their system of trade were they not in possession of the custom-house, and had power to seize all the goods that pass through it to pay themselves for debts..... From "The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine" http://books.google.com/books?id=7w4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA516&dq= =onepage&q=&f=false "We commend to the consideration of our merchants the strange facts brought to light in these investigations. A single Indian house, we are told, employs a capital of half a million sterling in advances to slave-owners and slave-dealers, mainly in Zanzibar alone! No less than £140,000 is lent to European and American firms, Indians being the creditors, and the great commercial peoples of Europe and the new world the debtors. Nothing gives us so startling an idea of the gigantic proportions and the strange ramifications of this horrible trade as these monetary transactions. Well may Sir Bartle Frere say, " I know nothing like it in the history of commerce;" and well may the British Indians take the greatest pains to conceal their transactions in " black pepper and " soiled ivory.".... "It seems to be forgotten that the East African slave-trade in its present shape is the growth of the last half century. A few slaves probably always went ; but in their present numbers, and with the present horrors of original capture and conveyance, the trade has become possible only since piracy was suppressed;