o7's for the Zanzibari ship that took on the British Navy alone.

To add to the hilarity of the war, Britain demanded war reparations from Zanzibar to cover the cost of the shells fired in the naval bombardment.

They missed a crucial detail on religion here, the old sultan was muslim but fully aware of British capability at sea so he decided it was better to live a luxurious life as a proxy ruler than fighting. His successor khalid had islamist advisors whispering bad advice because they all directly or indirectly profited from the slave trade and didn't want to lose money. Needless to say telling Britain to sod off, when your palace is alongside the harbour with a British squadron present, didn't go well.

This is a relatively new channel but I recommend watching more of their stuff. Not only are they well-researched and well animated, they are also quite fun.

The buying and selling in slaves, otherwise known as the slave trade, was abolished across the British Empire in 1807. The ownership of existing slaves was abolished 26 years later. Btw, the video states that "Zanzibar is off the coast of Tanzania". In fact Zanzibar is part of Tanzania, and is off the coast of what was German East Africa, later known as Tanganyika. Tanganyika (a British protectorate) and Zanzibar & Pemba (a British colony) united to form Tanzania after independence.

Famous resident of Zanzibar was one Farouk Bulsara...

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Royal navy, Stop Slaving or Else.

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slavery officially ended on 1st August 1833 in the empire. Though in Great Britain proper there is not a specific date though often 1772 is stated as this was when the Somerset vs Stewart case happened.

The thing that catches me is, if Britain's turn away from slavery was mainly economic, what spurred them to illegalize slavery and call slaves human? Clearly, there was some kind of humanitarian view in the mix somewhere. Otherwise, you'd think the British would allow slavery even after it become inefficient, they'd watch the number of slaves being imported reduce to zero, and then... just, like, ignore it without enacting laws to stop slavery from becoming a thing again, if a new found use for them were brought to the table.

Hey there Mr. T. Happy to finally sub been a few years and just hit the button, been a few great reactions and I hope the kids get some good knowledge from you in class

yoo my boi getting recognition. Tha is really a good channel i have been watching them from their 14k sub

Hi MtTerry! Love your channel and your comments and insights on every video you react to.

Another thing about the slavery stuff, here in South Africa slavery was abolished in 1838 but due to the massive demand for mine workers the British offered large salaries, however over time they staterd replacing worker salaries with booze and opened more booze shops near the mines and this resulted in more and more poor miners (blacks) spending more and more of their money on booze instead of sending it back home, eventually most people just stopped sending money back home and some miners whole salary was replaced by booze, while daily work gave the miners a free on the job meal. Families which where missing their father couldn't farm as well or even at all so they would often send their sons to look for the father, their are first hand accounts of sons finding their father's drunk in brothel's, also in a lot of cases the sons also never returned instead they also started their addiction to booze and stayed at the mines and as a result of no men to farm and no money coming back the women would often travel to richer (whiter) areas and work as house servants and in more than a few cases would accept living with the white family in return for free food and housing. Basically South Africa made under British rule made it so that although slavery had ended the conditions bearly changed, kinda like African Americans in the south after the us civil war where the slaves where made free and left to fend for themselves and often siqned contracts to work for their former owners for little to almost no pay.

Please watch more videos by historically. They get criminally low view counts for how good their videos are.

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With those statistics there were about 13 deaths every minute of the war so I guess it’s kinda the deadliest war by minute overall? Idk just thought that was cool

That one Zanzibar ship is a bit like the Thunderchild in War of the Worlds, except the Thunderchild actually kinda did its job lol

I was wondering when you'd run into this channel lol