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Slave shackle being removed by a British sailor, 1907. The son of the man who took the photograph wrote the following account of what happened: Image
"The pictures were taken by my father who was serving aboard HMS Sphinx while on armed patrol off the Zanzibar and Mozambique coast in about 1907.
They caught quite a few slaver traders, and those particular slaves that are in the pictures were liberated while he was on watch. That night a dhow (sailing vessel) sailed by and the slaves were all chained together.
He raised the alarm and they got them onto the ship and got the chains knocked off them. They then questioned them and sent a party of marines ashore to try to track the slave traders down.
They caught two of them and I believe they were of Arabic origin. My father thought the slave trade was a despicable thing that was going on, the slaves were treated very badly so when they got the slave traders they didn't give them a very nice time".
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