abolitionism 4, 7, 23, 32, 33, 194, 196, 220, 221, 236, 237, 246, 249, 251
Abyssinia (historic name for present-day Eritrea) 37, 227
Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807 6, 184
Aden 44, 52, 83, 85, 86, 105, 119, 143, 144, 145, 151, 153, 164, 188, 198, 237, 252
Admiralty 27, 29, 37, 39, 54, 71, 153, 184, 185, 186, 188, 208, 217, 219, 220, 230
Aitchison, Charles 85
Ali (see “interpreters”)
Anstie Grange 247
Antananarivo 97
Anti-Slavery Reporter 235
Arabian Peninsula 44, 46, 52, 111, 117, 125, 143
Arabian Sea 5, 31, 47, 54, 72, 219, 225
Arabs 46, 64, 158, 194, 201, 233
Ascension Island 42
baghlah 69
Bahrain 228
Baltic Sea 219
Baluchis 50
Barghash (see “Said, Sultan Barghash bin”)
Basra 162
Beecroft, Consul John 19–20, 23
Belcher, Admiral Sir Edward 27–8
blockade 7, 23, 36, 72, 236, 252
Bombay (historic name of present-day Mumbai) 5, 8, 24, 35, 36, 38, 43, 46, 47, 55, 72, 83, 84–5, 87–8, 90, 144, 149, 151, 152, 153, 161, 162, 165, 193, 202, 215–7, 225, 251, 252
Brazil 14, 19, 25, 26, 32, 54, 55, 155
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 5
Briton, HMS 256
Brooke, Gerard 180
Bruce, Admiral Sir Henry 23
Burma 149
Bushire, Persia 161
Calcutta (historic name for present-day Kolkata) 36, 85, 149, 150, 161
Cambridge, HMS 40
Cape of Good Hope 191
Castor, HMS 155, 168, 217, 255–6
Cavendish, Lord George Henry 237, 238
Ceylon (historic name for present-day Sri Lanka) 115, 162–3, 164, 226
China 32, 40, 88, 115, 149, 224, 225
cholera 224
Christianity 32, 33, 61, 62, 66, 107, 123, 129, 182, 206, 236, 244
Christian Observer 233
Churchill, Consul Henry 51–2, 88–90, 145, 153, 164, 193, 249, 252
Church Missionary Society 257
Civil War, U.S. 4, 5, 33, 40, 249
Clarendon, George Villiers, Earl of 217–20, 221
Clarke, Norman 92, 107–8, 126–8, 144, 200–1, 207
cloves 23, 46, 47, 48, 87, 205, 225
coal 85, 106, 143, 172, 187, 202
Cockburn, 8th Baronet, Admiral Sir George 245
coconut 5
Coffee, Ben 141
Colomb, Cdr Philip.
career background 28, 52–5; family 27; promotion 30; signals research 28–30; views on race 6, 33, 124, 177–8, 212
Columbine, HMS 256
Pakenham, Conolly 61–3, 164, 165, 208–9
Cornwall, U.K. 24, 37, 244, 245, 253
Costa Leal, Fernando da 192
cotton 47, 67, 84, 87, 88, 150, 165, 168, 198, 216, 225
Crimean War (see “Russian War”)
Cruz, Antonio (“Bonga”) José da 157, 159, 169, 170
Daphne, HMS 38–41, 252, 255, 257
Defence, HMS 28
Dillon, Dr. William 158, 171, 172
domestic slavery 150, 222, 235
East India Company 31, 161, 237, 251
East Indies Station 37, 43, 47, 216
Emancipation Act of 1833 31, 184, 196
engagés 63, 157, 167–8, 173, 189, 191–2, 196, 198, 242, 257
Fairfax, Admiral Sir Henry 218
Feighly, Henry 60
Fitzgerald, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey 84–5
Foreign Office 149, 153, 184, 185, 186, 201, 217, 218, 221, 222, 226, 230, 241, 250
former slaves 119–20, 142, 196–8, 206
and engagé labour (see “engagé”); and Madagascar 165, 242; relationship with Britain 219; slavery 63, 79, 93, 167, 168
Franklin, Sir John 27
free trade 4, 32–3, 66, 86, 164–5, 185, 219, 236, 250, 255
Frere, Sir Henry Bartle 251, 252–3
Fretter, Ed 207
Gilpin, Charles 237
Gladstone, William 184, 230, 236, 250–1, 252
Gurney, Russell 237
head money (see “bounties”)
Heath, Vice Admiral Sir Leopold 6, 31
career background 18–23, 30, 34–7; family 18; promotion 247; retirement 248; views on race 36, 246
Hodgson, Sub-Lieutenant Tom 128, 143, 144, 200
Hutchinson, James 60
Illustrated London News 232
indentured servitude 63, 156, 167, 196, 197–8
as eastern capital of the British Empire 149, 150; and ivory trade 87–9, 161, 205, 216–7, 228; and slavery 49, 89–90, 179, 192, 217, 237; Viceroy of (see “Mayo, Viceroy of India, Richard Bourke, Earl of ”)
currents 131; slave trade 50, 52, 216, 251; commerce 47, 69, 85, 88, 117, 150
Indus, HMS 40
interpreters 165, 168, 201, 215
Ismailia, Egypt 225
ivory 24, 46–7, 48, 66, 68, 87, 88, 150, 155, 156, 165, 193, 205, 217, 225
Johnson, Ben 57
Jumah, interpreter on HMS Pantaloon and Daphne 48–9, 76–9, 103, 118, 159–60, 170, 171–2
kidnapping 49, 67, 103, 118, 132, 191
King, Tom 57
Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, Arthur 237, 241, 250
Kipling, Rudyard 149
and David Livingstone 164; relationship with Heath’s squadron 165, 186, 206; as Vice Admiralty Court judge 187, 193, 202, 228; views on race 203
Kroomen 7–9, 20, 42, 44, 45, 57, 76, 137, 140–1, 180, 195, 224, 228, 238, 255
Kutch (former Princely State in India) 89, 193
Letten, Tom 160
Livingstone, David 5, 32–3, 54, 66–9, 157, 164, 167, 186, 188, 231, 233, 235, 236, 249
Loch, George 118
London 34, 57, 67, 88, 105, 120, 149, 151, 217, 219, 234, 236, 245, 247
London Missionary Society 32
Madagascar 5, 24, 32, 36, 79, 96, 120, 175, 179
and imperial France 242; and Christianity (see “Christianity”); political history 61–2
Magnet, HMS 59
Majan 208
Majunga 92, 96, 173, 176–9, 209–12.
Malagasy 62–3, 79, 92–4, 98, 115, 165, 177, 182, 208–12, 242
Malawi 23
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of 221
Maria Theresa Dollars 125, 202
Mauritius 31, 143, 144, 192, 194, 196–9, 208, 209
Mayotta Island 167, 171–2, 196
Mayo, Viceroy of India, Richard Bourke, Earl of 150
Meara, Cdr Edward Spencer 6
career background 14–7, 28, 55; family 13–4; views on race 244
Meara, George 14
Mecca 203
millet 5
Milne, Sir Alexander 225
Mission Life 234
Mitchell, William 57, 128–9, 243
Mohammed, Sultan Hamoud bin 258
monsoon 36, 69–70, 72, 73, 84, 91, 102, 111, 117, 122, 135, 143
Moosa, Saleh bin 113–7, 123–5, 137, 195, 209–12
Moresby Treaty 47
Morjakibo 208
Morning Post 233
Mortimer, Dr. Edward 64, 66, 81, 101
Mozambique 23, 92, 98, 155–6, 168
Channel 24, 91, 167, 169–73, 191, 210, 242, 255; Island 155, 158–9, 168, 190–2
Mukalla, town in present-day Yemen 117, 124
Muscat; see “Oman, Sultanate of Muscat”
Napoleon III, Emperor 93
newspapers 32, 229–30, 249, 251, 252
Oman, Sultanate of Muscat and 24, 46, 79, 111, 150–1, 161, 216, 252
Ottoman Empire 203
Otway, Arthur 218
Pacific and Orient Lines 52–4, 163, 183
Pall Mall 245
Pall Mall Gazette 231, 235, 251
Palmerston, Henry John Temple Viscount 184
Paulo Marianno 156
Paulo Marianno II (Matekenya) 157, 159, 168
Parliament, U.K. 4, 31, 33, 184, 236–42, 249, 250
pay (of Royal Navy officers and seamen) 81, 104–6, 110, 145, 204
Pemba Island 46–7, 72, 87, 146, 205
Penny Illustrated Paper 231, 234
Perseverance (merchant barque) 209
Persia (historic name for present-day Iran) 32, 161–3
Persian Gulf 5, 24, 37, 54, 67, 71, 72, 84, 90, 117, 149, 151, 161–2, 228, 241
piracy 25, 31, 49, 103, 149, 155, 159, 161, 194, 225
plantation 5, 23, 24, 46, 48, 50, 51, 64, 72, 79, 87, 156–7, 196–7, 199, 221
prices (of the enslaved) 7, 67, 79, 103, 151, 168
Port Louis (see “Mauritius”) Portugal 170, 197, 221
colonialism 155–6, 158–9, 161; Portuguese in Mozambique 156–7, 169; and slavery 160, 168, 189–92, 242
Port Victoria, Seychelles 119, 142, 174
prize money 100, 145, 204, 240, 243, 245
Ranavalona II, Queen 62, 92, 177
Reading Mercury 233
Red Sea 34–5, 36, 37, 44, 52, 84, 117, 131, 225, 226
rice 1, 47, 79, 80, 98, 179, 180, 195
Rigby, Christopher Palmer 237
Rosekie, Nobie 57
Rothery, Henry 218, 226, 239–40, 260
Russell, Sir Edward 85–6, 151, 198
Russian War (Crimean War) 6, 30, 34–6, 59, 219, 237, 244, 253
Said, Sultan Barghash bin 249, 251–2, 255, 257
Said, Sultan Majid bin 45, 48, 50–2, 87–8, 89, 150, 153, 203, 219
Saleh (see “Moosa, Saleh bin”)
Sabouri (of Mozambique) 208
Select Committee on the Slave Trade, 1871 236–42, 248, 249
Semaquail 208
Seychelles Islands 44, 119–20, 142–3, 174, 197–8, 206–7
Shaw-Lefevre, George 237
Shearwater, HMS 257
ship’s agent 105
signals and signaling apparatus 28–30, 112–3, 122, 133, 135, 246
Siman 16
Singapore 149
slave market (for Zanzibar’s slave market, see “Zanzibar; slave market”) 3, 70, 77, 117, 191
Socotra Island 57
Somerset Case 221
steam propulsion 39, 49, 59, 246, 253
sugar 5, 23, 36, 64, 83, 93, 155, 167, 172, 196, 199, 242
Sulivan, Captain George.
career background 25–7, 48–9, 64; family 24, 244; promotion 203–4; religion 6, 206; views on race 33, 120
Sulivan, Henrietta 27, 244, 254
Swahili 64, 68, 115, 124, 192, 242
Tamatave 61, 164, 178, 208, 210
Thetis, HMS 257
transatlantic slave trade 4, 5, 7, 14, 156, 233
Treasury 34, 105, 106, 184, 185, 186, 217, 218, 226, 236, 239, 243
Trebizond, Ottoman province 203
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 251
United Kingdom 7, 23, 61, 165, 186, 249
free trade and the (see “free trade”); government (see “Parliament, U.K.”); opinions about slavery 4, 32–3, 184, 221; relationship with Zanzibar 149, 206, 220, 230, 248, 258
Civil War (see “Civil War, U.S.”); slavery 7, 14, 26, 155, 236; Zanzibar and 48, 51, 252
Vice Admiralty Court 105–6, 119, 145, 153, 164, 172, 187, 191, 193, 202, 209, 216, 218, 220, 226
Victoria, Queen 7, 92, 177–8, 248
Wales 250
West Africa 7, 17, 19, 41, 243
Preventative Squadron 4, 6, 14, 152, 184; slave trade 184
Westminster 85, 184, 237, 245, 249, 250
Westminster Review 251
Whitehead, William 57 “white slavery” 203
Wilberforce, William 6, 33, 133
Zambesi River 190
Zanzibar 1–2, 24, 50, 69, 70, 82, 84–90, 103, 108–11, 124–5, 145, 153, 194, 201, 220, 230, 237–8, 241, 248, 251, 255, 258
colonial capital 32, 167, 206; entrepôt 46, 151; harbour 48, 72–3, 90, 125–9, 186, 200, 204, 253–4; slave market 23, 36, 45, 49, 67, 93, 188, 203, 205, 252, 256; Sultanate 36, 47, 68, 149–50