Chapter 144 Trade
Port of Dar es Salaam.
Slave trading market.
"These natives will be handed over to you, Mr. Abragg. Happy cooperation." The staff transferred a batch of slaves to the Zanzibar slave merchants.
"Of course, my friend, good luck to you." Abrager said.
Then ordered his subordinates to put chains on these natives, and just like that, another slave team left East Africa.
Abulag is a long-term partner in the East African colony, and his father is the minister of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
The long line slowly walked towards the pier under the supervision of thugs.
"Livestock! Don't look back, from today onwards, you will never go back! Get rid of this heart."
The Zanzibar people used Swahili language to carry out a psychological blow to these indigenous people.
It is used to dispel the last hope in the hearts of these slaves. This is a procedure in the slave trade.
Becoming a slave is not terrible for black people, because they themselves are in the tribal era. The indigenous people on the African continent conquer each other, and it is normal for the losers to become slaves.
In the tribal era, each tribe would capture the people of the enemy tribe and turn them into slaves, or be captured by the enemy tribe and become slaves.
That is to say, slaves are commonplace in the African continent, so the aborigines will not panic too much after becoming slaves, because their worldview is like this-the loser becomes a slave.
And being a slave in the East African colonies is not bad in the eyes of some indigenous people!
This is not nonsense. Under the training of the work in the East African colonies, these indigenous slaves are actually quite satisfied. Although they are a little tired every day, their food source is stable every day.
And these natives, when they were in the tribe before, knew how their tribe treated slaves. It was commonplace to beat and scold them. It was not uncommon to do heavy manual labor. It was not surprising that they lacked arms and legs.
Compared with the means of their own tribe, what the East African colonies have done is simply a living Buddha.
So the natives are not too afraid of becoming slaves, but they are afraid of ships on the sea.
Because they also know that they will leave this land forever when they board the big ship, and they may never come back for the rest of their lives!
The experienced Zanzibar slave traders naturally want to dispel the "homesickness" of the natives, otherwise, these native slaves are prone to riots after boarding the ship.
There is no more convenient and effective way than beating and scolding to divert the attention of these natives.
The Zanzibar people's method worked very well. The attention of these slaves was quickly distracted by whipping and cursing. Coupled with the training of the former East African colony, they quickly became honest.
"You guys, separate the goods from these slaves, don't let these natives suffer, and put them in a high place so that the goods don't get wet! If my uncle's goods suffer a little loss, you will be happy." Abrager said to his subordinates Said.
Now more and more slave traders are beginning to use the method of mixing people and goods, pulling slaves and goods to the Middle East for sale.
In the past two years, the limelight has become more and more intense, and the slave trade has become more and more difficult. For the Zanzibarans, those Europeans are really meddlesome and nosy.
You were the happiest in buying and selling slaves back then, and now that you have made a fortune, you come here to smash everyone's food!
The Zanzibars and the Arabs are talking about the British and French countries. The anti-slavery is now prevalent, and ships have already been seized.
If the Europeans were really so kind, Abrague would eat * while standing on his head. As a person who has been in the sea all year round, would Abrague know that in this era, those who are in the sea are living kings of Hades. Without a good thing, the Virgin Mary would have been thrown into the sea to feed him. The shark is gone.
These European grandchildren, now that they don’t need slaves, start pretending to be the Virgin Mary and play moral kidnapping, which is really disgusting.
People who are influenced by Arab culture are the ones who have the most contact with the West. The two religions have fought for thousands of years, who doesn't understand who?
Now that the Arabs have fallen, these Europeans dare to stand on their heads and pull*.
The situation is stronger than the people. The Arabs are indeed dying. They have no strength and naturally have no confidence. But the Zanzibarans and other Arab businessmen will naturally not sit still. They have also begun to transform and upgrade. Of course, it is impossible to give up the cake of the slave trade .
The illegal slave ship was packaged and turned into a labor import ship, and the slaves became legally recruited workers.
In order to prevent Europeans from catching them, slave traders will also reduce the number of slaves on board, so that there will be no problem of overloading, at least not from the outside.
However, in order to earn more, many merchants began to use the space originally used to transport slaves for loading.
This is also influenced by the East African colonies. The Hechingen consortium transported goods to the Arab region, mostly along the Mediterranean Sea, from factories in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, through ports around the Adriatic Sea, and directly to Ottoman and other countries. But some will also go to East Africa.
These industrial products are very valuable to the Zanzibar people, and the most important thing is that they don’t need to pay! Commodities in East Africa are of course clearly priced, but women can be used as collateral.
In addition to black people, they want everything, as long as they are not too old, then this is easy to handle. Anyway, Zanzibarians don’t fly alone to the Middle East, they also go to India and Southeast Asia.
In this era, the people at the bottom of the colonized area are really poor. They were already squeezed by the local dignitaries. Now that the colonists have come, there are more vampires.
Southeast Asia is the Netherlands, a colony developed by the Portuguese for two or three hundred years. Why Southeast Asia can become a high-quality colony is that the local population is large and developed early. After all, there is civilization. Unlike Africa and America, where Europeans go Before arriving, the Indians in America were still playing with stones, and in Africa...
And Southeast Asia, especially those island countries in the south, many of them are Arab countries (Indonesia), and there are naturally many Arab businessmen going to the local trade and business.
In this way, the channels of the Zanzibar people are very diverse. As long as they bribe the local nobles, they can basically get as much as they can. Anyway, there is no such thing as human rights in the colonies.
Many of these aristocrats are agents of European colonists. European countries cannot do without their help in colonizing local areas. They are mainly used to rule and suppress the lower classes, so don’t expect them to have any integrity in the face of interests.
It just so happened that, as the local tyrants, they did all kinds of evil. There were not many bottom-level people in the colony who could eat enough, and the economic conditions of the bottom-level people were naturally very poor.
When the bottom people can't live any longer, but they still have a breath, they will have fear, because the colonists and local nobles can really decide life and death, but none of them want to be the first bird, because now they can "live" .
In order to survive, no ethics and good quality can compare to the benefits of a meal, so Zanzibar businessmen often buy people from these areas with one or two meals.
Anyway, what the merchant earns is the price difference, and the East African colony will pay in the end.
(end of this chapter)