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Friends anti-slavery committee,
(1)
and Horace Mellor
bombarded the Government with requests to abolish the
legal status of slavery in Z nzibar.
The pressure for British control in East/Central
Africa, had come from philanthropic interests, mainly
from the lioaiona and the A, S; S. The position of the
Mieciona in relation to the slave traders on the ono hand
and the claims of Portugal on the other, was the crucial
factor in the demands for Inperiol control of the ixyasa
region. Until the British South Africa Company cane on
the scene commerce played only a subsidiary if
complementary role,
(1) Sec Friends Cu< rter1y Examiner, October 1895.
{2i flaraco Waller, Tho ctnn of our Znnzibnr n1raven why not
1tbc rntn them 2 London M69 .
(2i