Cf. Mr. Gilbert Murray in Liberalism and the Empire, pp.126-129 (Brimley Johnson).
In the British Protectorate of Zanzibar and Pemba, however, slavery still exists (notwithstanding the Sultan’s decree of emancipation in 1897) and British courts of justice recognise the status. Miss Emily Hutchinson, who is associated with the Friends’ Industrial Mission at Pemba, said it was five years since the legal states of slavery was abolished in Zanzibar and Pemba. Every one, including those who were most anxious that the liberation should proceed slowly, was dissatisfied with the present state of affairs. Out of an estimated population of 25,000 slaves in Pemba less than 5000 had been liberated so far under the decree (Anti-Slavery Society Annual Meeting, April 4, 1902).
Murray, Liberalism and the Empire, p.141.
Cf. Morris, The History of Colonisation, vol.ii, p.60, &c.