Author: Sir Samuel White BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Ismailïa
Author: Sir Samuel White BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Ismailĩa
Author: Samuel White BakerIsmailïa a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt by Sir Samuel W. Baker
Author: Ismailia
Author: Samuel White BakerIsmailia
Author: Samuel W. BakerPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 9780837115085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ismailia
Author: Sir Samuel White BakerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781589761940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
In 1869, Ismail Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, appointed Samuel White as governor general of Sudan. This is White's story of his experiences trying to defeat slave trade and open routes for commerce.
Ismailia
Author: Sir Samuel White BakerIsmailïa
Author: Samuel White BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108030963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
The continuation of Baker's 1874 account of his expedition against the slave trade in southern Egypt and the Sudan.
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt
Author: Sir Samuel White BakerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465615180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
In the present work I shall describe the history of the Khedive of Egypt's expedition, which I have had the honour to command, as the first practical step that has been taken to suppress the slave trade of Central Africa. I shall not repeat, beyond what may be absolutely necessary, that which has already been published in my former works on Africa, "The Albert N'yanza" and "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," but I shall adhere to the simple path taken by the expedition. This enterprise was the natural result of my original explorations, in which I had been an eye-witness to the horrors of the slave trade, which I determined, if possible, to suppress. In my former journey I had traversed countries of extreme fertility in Central Africa, with a healthy climate favourable for the settlement of Europeans, at a mean altitude of 4,000 feet above the sea level. This large and almost boundless extent of country was well peopled by a race who only required the protection of a strong but paternal government to become of considerable importance, and to eventually develop the great resources of the soil. I found lands varying in natural capabilities according to their position and altitudes—where sugar, cotton, coffee, rice, spices, and all tropical produce might be successfully cultivated; but those lands were without any civilized form of government, and "every man did what seemed right in his own eyes." In this dislocated state of society, the slave trade prospered to the detriment of all improvement. Rich and well-populated countries were rendered desolate; the women and children were carried into captivity; villages were burnt, and crops were destroyed or pillaged; the population was driven out; a terrestrial paradise was converted into an infernal region; the natives who were originally friendly were rendered hostile to all strangers, and the general result of the slave trade could only be expressed in one word—"ruin." The slave hunters and traders who had caused this desolation were for the most part Arabs, subjects of the Egyptian government. These people had deserted their agricultural occupations in the Soudan and had formed companies of brigands in the pay of various merchants of Khartoum. The largest trader had about 2,500 Arabs in his pay, employed as pirates or brigands, in Central Africa. These men were organized after a rude military fashion, and armed with muskets; they were divided into companies, and were officered in many cases by soldiers who had deserted from their regiments in Egypt or the Soudan. It is supposed that about 15,000 of the Khedive's subjects who should have been industriously working and paying their taxes in Egypt were engaged in the so-called ivory trade and slave-hunting of the White Nile.
Ismailia
Author: Samuel W. BakerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406504989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
"A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt." By the English explorer and author.